Abstract
Among the many boron hydrides characterized by Alfred Stock and his co-workers was a remarkably versatile material, BlaH14. Decaborane- 14 may be prepared by the pyrolysis of diborane and today this material is commercially available to the chemical investigator. This availability is a relatively new condition, since decaborane-14 was virtually unavailable prior to 1950. During the last decade, the boron hydrides as a class have been extensively investigated as candidate reaction motor fuels. This impetus has extended the frontiers of boron hydride chemistry to such an extent that boron hydride chemistry might someday become a truly major area of chemical technology. It seems unlikely, however, that boron hydride chemistry will ever challenge the chemistry of carbon hydrides in popularity or general usefulness. In any event, it is likely that decaborane-14 will play a prominent role in the future as an easily handled starting material for synthetic, structural, and mechanistic studies The present article will be devoted to the discussion of decaborane-14 and compounds, which may be obtained from this hydride by relatively simple reactions.
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