N.N. Greenwood and A. Earnshaw, Chemistry of the Elements (1984), provides basic coverage of carboranes; and Geoffrey Wilkinson, F. Gordon A. Stone, and Edward W. Abel (eds.), Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry, 9 vol. (1982), contains several chapters dealing with carboranes and other heteroboranes. Russell N. Grimes, Carboranes (1970), is the first book-length account of these compounds.