“…The icosahedral carboranes, o-, m-, and p-dicarba-c/oso-dodecaborane(12) (C2B10H12) have attracted industrial attention because of their potential use in high-temperature resistant coatings and as precursors to ceramic materials such as B4C. 2 The ortho isomer, o-C2B10H12, is an orientationally disordered solid at amo-Carborane (1) (2) Obenland, C. O.; Papetti, S. U.S. Patent 3509216, 1970. bient temperature and pressure, and its structural properties have been studied by X-ray diffraction,3,4 differential scanning and adiabatic calorimetry,3,5 and variable-temperature (300-11 K) IR,6'8 Raman,9'11 and *H and nB NMR spectroscopies.12'14 While there is general agreement that an order-disorder phase transition exists for o-carborane at ~270 K, some authors have also reported other phase transitions occurring at lower temperatures, but these claims have been disputed.10,11 It is clear, (3) Baughmann, R. H. J. Chem. Phys.…”