Abstract
Found nature in the mineral borax, a commodity widely used in laundry products, boron exists as B12 that has an icosahedral structure. Boron halides, BX3, have planar structures and because they are electron deficient compounds they behave as Lewis acids. There is an extensive chemistry of boron hydrides with the simplest being B2H6 in which two hydrogen atoms in bridging positions are participants in three-center bonds. Numerous other boron hydrides exhibit a variety of polyhedral structures. Because BN is isoelectronic with C2, many compounds are known in which a BN unit replaces two carbon atoms. These include BN itself that has a graphite-type structure, and B3N3H6 that has a structure similar to that of benzene. Carboranes result when one or more carbon atoms replace B-H units in the B12H12 molecule, and they form complexes with metals.
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