Organoborates are convenient nucleophilic reagents due to their stability towards air and moisture; however, the stability does not hamper their high reactivity in a large variety of reactions, such as oxidative cross-coupling between the alkynyl and aryl ligands of the borates, forming an sp-sp2 carbon-carbon bond. Organoborates are involved in the sequence hydroboration-oxidation and are being investigated as electrolytes for lithium batteries.
