Organic amines are found to be abundant in natural living systems. They also constitute an inestimable family of building blocks available in drug design. Considering the man-made cluster [(1,2-C2B9H11)2-3,3'-Co(III)]- ion (1-) and its application as an emerging unconventional pharmacophore, the availability of the corresponding amines has been limited and those with amino groups attached directly to carbon atoms have remained unknown. This paper describes the synthesis of compounds containing one or two primary amino groups attached to the carbon atoms of the cobaltacarborane cage that are accessible via the reduction of newly synthesized azides or via the Curtius rearrangement of the corresponding acyl azide. This substitution represents the first members of the series of azides and primary amines with functional groups bound directly to the carbon atoms of the cage. As expected, the absence of the linker along with the presence of the bulky anionic polyhedral ion leads to a significant alteration of the chemical and physicochemical properties. On a broader series of amines of the ion 1- we have thus observed significant differences in the acidity of the amino groups, depending on whether these are attached to the carbon or boron atoms of the cage, or the C-substituted amines contain an aliphatic linker of variable length. The compounds are relevant for potential use as cobalt bis(dicarbollide) structural blocks in medicinal chemistry and material science. Our study includes single-crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD) structures of both amines and a discussion of their stereochemical and structural features.

Dpt of General and Inorganic Chemistry Faculty of Chemical Technology University of Pardubice Studentská 95 53210 Pardubice Czech Republic

Dpt of Inorganic Chemistry Faculty of Science Charles University Hlavova 2030 8 128 43 Prague Czech Republic

Faculty of Pharmacy Charles University Akademika Heyrovského 1203 500 05 Hradec Králové Czech Republic

Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences 25068 Řež Czech Republic

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