Borohydrides, polymeric

Use Synthesis of organic boron compounds and metal borohydrides, polymerization catalyst for ethylene, fuel for air-breathing engines and rockets, reducing agent, doping agent for p-type semiconductors. 

CgH BiBr2, and diphenylbromobismuthine [39248-62-9] C22H2QBiBr, respectively, with lithium aluminum hydride or sodium borohydride at low temperatures yielded only black polymeric substances of empirical formula C H Bi (33). It has been claimed (34) that dimethylbismuthine and diphenylbismuthine can be used as cocatalysts for the polymerisation of ethylene (qv), propylene (qv), and 1,3-butadiene. The source of these bismuthines, however, was not mentioned. 

A complex of 9-BBN with MMA can be formed and compounded with sodium borohydride [92], Derivatives from the combination of 9-BBN with fatty acid or fatty alcohol give an initiator with improved stability [93], Stability appears to improve with increasing molecular weight, so oligomeric and polymeric analogs... 

The compounds are isolated by sublimation from the reaction mixture. Perhaps surprisingly the compounds fall into two quite distinct classes. Those of Np and Pu are unstable, volatile, monomeric liquids which at low temperatures crystallize with the 12-coordinate structure of Zr(BFl4)4 (Fig. 21.7, p. 969). The borohydrides of Th, Pa and U, on the other hand, are thermally more stable and less reactive solids. They possess a curious helical polymeric structure in which each An is surrounded by 6 BFI4 ions, 4 being bridging groups attached by 2 FI atoms and... 

Polymerization of 6,8-dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]octane, 2, has been most extensively studied among bicyclic acetals. This monomer is readily prepared from 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyran-2-carbaldehyde 1 by reduction with sodium borohydride followed by add-... 

The nitrated model compound, 9, proved even more resistant to reduction than the polymeric analog the dissolving metal technique used to reduce 15 failed on 9, but finally the amino model, 10, was produced by treatment of with a 25-fold excess of sodium borohydride. Compound 1 serves as a difunctional initiator for NCA polymerization. 

Devaky and Rajasree have reported the production of a polymer-bound ethylenediamine-borane reagent (63) (Fig. 41) for use as a reducing agent for the reduction of aldehydes.87 The polymeric reagent was derived from a Merrifield resin and a 1,6-hexanediol diacrylate-cross-linked polystyrene resin (HDODA-PS). The borane reagent was incorporated in the polymer support by complexation with sodium borohydride. When this reducing agent was used in the competitive reduction of a 1 1 molar mixture of benzaldehyde and acetophenone, benzaldehyde was found to be selectively reduced to benzyl alcohol. 

Studies on borohydride complexes of post-transition metals are as follows. Theoretical calculations on M(BH4) (M = Cu, Ag, Au) at the ab initio level indicate that Cu(i) and Ag(i) congeners have tetrahydridoborate structures, while the gold complex adopts a hydridoborane structure HAu(BH3).37 MeZn 2 /-BH4) 30 is prepared by addition of B2H6 to ZnMe2 or MeZnCl and Li[BH4]. The X-ray structure shows a polymeric helical arrangement of ZnMe + and [BH4]- fragments—similar to Be(BH4) or H2Ga(BH4) 50.38... 

The thermal desorption spectrum at very low heating rates shows three distinct desorption peaks. This is an indication that the desorption mechanism involves more than one intermediate step. This can be explained by the formation of polymeric borohydrides (Figure 5.44). 

Palard I, Soum A, Guillaume SM (2005) Rare earth metal tris(borohydride) complexes as initiators for e-caprolactone polymerization general features and IR investigations of the process. Macromolecules 36 54—60... 

Boron trichloride is used as a catalyst in polymerization reactions. Other applications include refining of alloys soldering flux and as a component in certain fire extinguishers. It also is used to prepare boron libers and other boron compounds including diborane, sodium borohydride and several adducts. 

Tsai551 has proposed a method for determining the degree of polymerization of oligosaccharides from chitin wherein they are reduced with sodium borohydride, methanolyzed, and the content of 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucitol determined as the trimethylsilyl ether. 

Thallium(I) hydride has been identified spectroscopically in the products of an electric discharge in hydrogen at a thallium cathode, or from thallium and atomic hydrogen.343 An unstable polymeric solid has also been reported.344 The borohydride TIBH4 can be obtained by reacting Tl1 compounds with LiBHU, and T1A1H4 is formed similarly 344 the borohydride, which has an ionic lattice, can also be prepared from KBH4 and aqueous TlNOs-345... 

Some strategies used for the preparation of support-bound thiols are listed in Table 8.1. Oxidative thiolation of lithiated polystyrene has been used to prepare polymeric thiophenol (Entry 1, Table 8.1). Polystyrene functionalized with 2-mercaptoethyl groups has been prepared by radical addition of thioacetic acid to cross-linked vinyl-polystyrene followed by hydrolysis of the intermediate thiol ester (Entry 2, Table 8.1). A more controllable introduction of thiol groups, suitable also for the selective transformation of support-bound substrates, is based on nucleophilic substitution with thiourea or potassium thioacetate. The resulting isothiouronium salts and thiol acetates can be saponified, preferably under reductive conditions, to yield thiols (Table 8.1). Thiol acetates have been saponified on insoluble supports with mercaptoethanol [1], propylamine [2], lithium aluminum hydride [3], sodium or lithium borohydride, alcoholates, or hydrochloric acid (Table 8.1). 

Oxy-Cope rearrangement. Tertiary 1,5-hexadiene-3-ols undergo oxy-Cope rearrangement at room temperature on treatment with 1 equiv. of mercury(II) trifluoroacetate and subsequent demercuration with sodium borohydride.2 The corresponding secondary alcohols undergo polymerization in the presence of this salt. 

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