The perfluoroadamantoxy aluminate as an ideal weakly coordinating anion? - synthesis and first applications.

Weakly coordinating anions (WCAs) facilitate the stabilization and isolation of highly reactive and almost "naked" cations. Alkoxyaluminate-based WCAs such as [Al(OC(CF))] ([]) are widely used due to their synthetic accessibility and their high stability. However, small cations are still able to coordinate the oxygen atoms of the [] anion or even to abstract an alkoxy ligand.