Abstract
From proposed mechanisms for framework reorganizations of the carboranes C2B n-2H n ,n = 5–12, we present reaction graphs in which points or vertices represent individual carborane isomers, while edges or arcs correspond to the various intramolecular rearrangement processes that carry the pair of carbon heteroatoms to different positions within the same polyhedral form. Because they contain both loops and multiple edges, these graphs are actually pseudographs. Loops and multiple edges have chemical significance in several cases. Enantiomeric pairs occur among carborane isomers and among the transition state structures on pathways linking the isomers. For a carborane polyhedral structure withn vertices, each graph hasn(n -1)/2 graph edges. The degree of each graph vertex and the sum of degrees of all graph vertices are independent of the details of the isomerization mechanism. The degree of each vertex is equal to twice the number of rotationally equivalent forms of the corresponding isomer. The total of all vertex degrees is just twice the number of edges orn(n - 1). The degree of each graph vertex is related to the symmetry point group of the structure of the corresponding isomer. Enantiomeric isomer pairs are usually connected in the graph by a single edge and never by more than two edges.
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Gimarc, B.M., Ott, J.J. Details of the reaction graphs for intramolecular isomerizations of the carboranes. J Math Chem 5, 359–380 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01164856
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