“…Despite the successful exploitation of icosahedral dicarbaboranes in drug design, relatively little attention has been paid to metallacarboranes and other chemically and thermally stable boron cage compounds. ,,, Some smaller metallacarboranes have a cytostatic effect, ,− and derivatives of icosahedral cobalt bis(dicarbollide) ion [(1,2-C 2 B 9 H 11 ) 2 -3,3′-Co] − can specifically inhibit HIV protease. − Antiviral, antifungal, and antibacterial activity and the ability to penetrate artificial lipid bilayers and cellular membranes have been reported for some metallacarborane derivatives. ,− …”