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The 1-R-o-carboranes undergo direct mercuration by HgBr2 in aqueous alkali solution to give the bis(1-R-o-carboranyl)mercury.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 1184–1185, May, 1984.
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Zakharkin, L.I., Krainova, N.Y. Preparation of bis(1-R-o-carboranyl)mercury by direct mercuration of 1-R-o-carboranes with mercury salts in alkaline solution. Russ Chem Bull 33, 1087–1088 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01141737
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