Abstract
1. Polarographic reduction potentials for various boromercurated carboranes have been measured and used to show that the potential required for reduction of the B-Hg bond is much higher than that required for reduction of the C-Hg bond in the carborane analogs. The mercurated carboranes resemble the alkyl and aryl organomercury compounds. 2. Reduction of the B-Hg bond proceeds more readily in the p-carborane than in either the o- or the m-carboranes, this being the result of the presence of a neighboring electron-deficient carbon in the first type of molecule.
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