The title anions are mostly unknown experimentally, but many are predicted to have stable states. A search was therefore made, and the following fifteen anions were found in the accurate-mass spectra of the given precursors: BH − B − 2 from reduced BBr 3; BC − from B(OCH 3) 3; BN − and BS − from BBr 3 (or BH 3) complexed with NH 3 and S 2Cl 2 respectively; SiC − and SiO − from CH 3Si(OCH 3) 3; SiN − from (CH 3) 3SiN 3; SiX − (X = F, or Cl) from SiX 4; PC − from CL 2PCH 3; PN − and PCl − from P 3N 3Cl 6; PF − from HPF 6 (aq.) and PS − from P 4S 10. These anions were also observed to be formed in charge-inversion reactions of the cations. The anions BF −, BCl − and BP − were searched for but not found.
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