My Ph.D. work at the University of Virginia was done in the lab of Professor Russell N. Grimes.  Russ Grimes is probably one of the top five boron chemists alive today.  Here are some pictures of molecules that I made while “doing time” at UVa.  Since these molecules are so bizarre and difficult to name, we often gave them “unofficial” names for ease of reference in the lab.

These images below didn't scan well, but still show the molecules.

Here's (CH₄)₄C₄B₇H₈Br.  This was the first 11-atoms arachno carborane cage known.  How about that!  The bromine atom isn't in the parent compound, but sometimes a halogenated version crystalizes better as it did here.

The molecule below practially fell out of a reaction unexpectedly.  It gave big beautiful red crystals.
 

Mercury atoms tend to link carborance cages, and so I tried to link some cobaltacarborance cages with Hg.  Worked nicely.  These are nice yellow-orange compounds.
 

I was also the first person in the history of the world to propose that it was possible to perform two-dimensional Fourier Transform heteronuclear hydrogen-1/boron-11 nuclear magnetic resonance.  Here’s the first such spectrum ever taken in the Fall of 1979.