Wang and her PhD student, Zachary Hudson, discuss the role of boron, and the photophysical properties of metal-containing triarylboranes. They go on to review the recent research, looking at triarylboron-containing complexes in OLEDs and as anion sensors, as well their use in MOFs, zinc sensors and as vapochromic materials to detect VOCs.
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Metal-containing triarylboron compounds for optoelectronic applications
Zachary M. Hudson and Suning Wang
Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 7805-7816
DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10292C
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