A Perfluorinated Nanosphere: Synthesis and Structure of Perfluoro-deca-B-methyl-para-carborane This research was funded by the National Science Foundation (USA) (NSF CHE 9314037) and (NSF CHE 9972888). We gratefully thank graduate student Theodore W. Bitner and Prof. Jeffrey I. Zink, UCLA, for the acquisition of the Raman spectra.