Chemistry:Azaborane

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Structure of closo-NB
9
H
10
[1]

Azaborane usually refers a borane cluster where BH vertices are replaced by N or NR (R stands typically for H or organic substituent). Like many of the related boranes, these clusters are polyhedra and can be classified as closo-, nido-, arachno-, etc.

Within the context of Wade's rules, NR is a 4-electron vertex, and N is a 3-electron vertex. Prominent examples are the charge-neutral nido-NB
10
H
13
(i.e. (NH)(BH)
10
) and closo-NB
11
H
12
(i.e. (NH)(BH)
11
).[2]

Azaboranes can also refer to simpler compounds including iminoboranes (RB=NR', where R and R' stand typically for H or organic substituent) and borazines.

See also

References

  1. Lenka Schneider; Ulli Englert; Peter Paetzold (1994). "Die Kristallstruktur von Aza‐closo‐decaboran NB9H10". Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 620 (7): 1191–1193. doi:10.1002/zaac.19946200711. 
  2. P. Paetzold (1991). "New Perspectives in Boron-Nitrogen Chemistry-I". Pure Appl. Chem. 63 (3): 345–350. doi:10.1351/pac199163030345. https://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/pdf/1991/pdf/6303x0345.pdf.