Boron configuration

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The refractory-metal borides have a structure which is dominated by the boron configuration. This clearly favors the metallic properties, such as high electrical and thermal conductivities and high hardness. Chemical stability, which is related to the electronic... 

The doublet is assigned to the B-0 stretching mode in a planar trigonal boron configuration [20]. This doublet is absent in the spectra of K- or Cs-borosilicalites. The stretching vibration of Si-0 bonds cover the rest of the spectrum. 

The discontinuities observed correspond to changes in electronic configuration. Boron and aluminium both have one electron in a... 

Other compounds containing lone pairs of electrons readily form co-ordinate links and in each case a change in spatial configuration accompanies the bond formation. The oxygen atom in dimethyl ether, CHj—O—CHj, has two lone pairs of electrons and is able to donate one pair to, for example, boron trichloride ... 

This compound, which contains atoms arranged tetrahedrally around the boron atom, can readily be isolated from a mixture of dimethyl ether and boron trichloride. On occasions a chlorine atom, in spite of its high election affinity, will donate an electron pair, an example being found in the dimerisation of gaseous monomeric aluminium chloride to give the more stable Al2Clg in which each aluminium has a tetrahedral configuration ... 

Boron achieves a covalency of three by sharing its three outer electrons, for example BFj (p. 153). By accepting an electron pair from a donor molecule or ion, boron can achieve a noble gas configuration whilst increasing its covalency to four, for example H3N->BCl3. K BF4. This is the maximum for boron and the second quantum level is now complete these 4-coordinate species are tetrahedral (p. 38). 

The BF4 ion has a regular tetrahedral configuration. The most important property of boron trifluoride is its great capacity to act as an electron pair acceptor (Lewis acid). Some examples of adducts are ... 

In each case the configuration around the boron changes from trigonal planar to tetrahedral on adduct formation. Because of this ability to form additional compounds, boron trifluoride is an important catalyst and is used in many organic reactions, notably polymerisation, esterification, and Friedel-Crafts acylation and alkylations. 

The boron atom in boron trifluoride is hybridized to the sp planar configuration and consequently is coordinatively unsaturated, ie, a Lewis acid. Its chemistry centers around satisfying this unsaturation by the formation with Lewis bases of adducts that are nearly tetrahedral sp [ The electrophilic properties (acid strengths) of the trihaloboranes have been found to increase in the order BF < BCl < BBr < BI (3,4). 

Both ( )- and (Z)-l-halo-l-alkenes can be prepared by hydroboration of 1-alkynes or 1-halo-l-alkynes followed by halogenation of the intermediate boronic esters (244,245). Differences in the addition—elimination mechanisms operating in these reactions lead to the opposite configurations of iodides as compared to bromides and chlorides. 

Mercuration. Mercury(II) salts react with alkyl-, alkenyl-, and arylboranes to yield organomercurials, which are usehil synthetic intermediates (263). For example, dialkyhnercury and alkyhnercury acetates can be prepared from primary trialkylboranes by treatment with mercury(II) chloride in the presence of sodium hydroxide or with mercury(II) acetate in tetrahydrofuran (3,264). Mercuration of 3 -alkylboranes is sluggish and requires prolonged heating. Alkenyl groups are transferred from boron to mercury with retention of configuration (243,265). 

The alkylboranes obtained by the hydroboration reaction are versatile intermediates for further transformations. The most important transformation is the oxidation to yield alcohols 17 it is usually carried out by treatment with hydroperoxide in alkaline solution. The group R migrates from boron to oxygen with retention of configuration ... 

These are ground-state configurations 1s22s 2p2 would be an excited state for boron. 

To show how orbital diagrams are obtained from electron configurations, consider the boron atom (Z = 5). Its electron configuration is ls22s22p1. The pair of electrons in the Is orbital must have opposed spins (+j, or f j). The same is true of the two electrons in the 2s orbital. There are three orbitals in the 2p sublevel. The single 2p electron in boron could be in any one of these orbitals. Its spin could be either up or down. The orbital diagram is ordinarily written... 

There is no more room in the 2s orbital for a fifth electron, which appears when we move on to the boron atom. However, another orbital with principal quantum number 2 is available. A 2p orbital accepts the fifth electron, giving the configuration Is ls-lfi. Continuing this process, we obtain the following configurations ... 

Explain the magnitudes in terms of the electron configurations of boron and deduce the number of valence electrons of boron. 

The electron configuration (41) is somewhat higher in energy than (40). It is necessary to promote a 2s electron to the 2p state to obtain (41). In return, however, the boron atom gains bonding capacity. Whereas a boron atom can form only one covalent bond in configuration... 

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