Chemistry of boron

Atomic boron Boron, being the nearest neighbour to carbon in the periodic table, is hard, brittle, lustrous black semimetal. It is known with 

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It has been argued that the inorganic chemistry of boron is more diverse and complex than that of any other element in the periodic table. Indeed, it is only during the last three decades that the enormous range of structural types has begun to... 

M11 R. N. Grimes, in Corrent Topies in the Chemistry of Boron"... 

Shortly after 1900, young Alfred Stock began his lifetime work study of the chemistry of boron. He reasoned that this neighbor of the versatile carbon atom could not possibly have the dull and limited chemistry popularly assumed at the time. He entered this study stimulated by his own desire to know—despite advice by the laboratory di-... 

In 1970, the synthesis of the orange-red sandwich cation 1 from cobaltocene and PhBCl2 (1) marked a further starting point in the chemistry of boron metal compounds. The presence of a planar benzenoid C5H5B ligand moiety in 1 was deduced from XH and UB NMR data (1). This was made ironclad by two X-ray structure determinations which revealed typical centrosymmetric sandwich structures for the 19-e complexes Co(C5H5BOMe)2 (6) (21,22) and Co(C5H5BMe)2 (7) (22) as shown in Fig. 1. 

Muetterties, E. F., Ed. (1967). The Chemistry of Boron and Its Compounds. Wiley, New York. A collection of chapters on different topics in boron chemistry. 

See Current Topics in the Chemistry of Boron, G.W. Kabalka (ed), RSC, Cambridge, 1994 Advances in Boron Chemistry, W. Siebert (ed), RSC, Cambridge, 1997 Contemporary Boron Chemistry, M.G. Davidson, A.K. Hughes, T.B. Marder and K. Wade (eds), RSC, Cambridge, 2000 Boron Chemistry at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Y.N. Bubnov (ed), URSS, Moscow, 2003. 

In complete parallel to the discussion in Section 3.5, the conditions for forming a stable 2c->-lc complex or T-bonded compound are intimately related to those for catalyzing the corresponding electrophilic displacement reaction. Thus, the implications of 3c/2e T-bonding go far beyond the chemistry of boron compounds. 

Current Topics in the Chemistry of Boron (Ed. G. Kabalka), Royal Society of Chemistry, London, 1994, p. 64. 

As rich and varied as the chemistry of boron-carbon heterocycles is, its versatility is extended considerably by the introduction of additional elements as ring heteroatoms (T able 6). At this writing, development in this area has involved primarily N- and S-containing rings, but examples of P- and O-containing boron heterocycles are also known. 

Kabalka, GW. Eds. Current Topics in the Chemistry of Boron. Proceedings of the Eighth International Meeting on Boron Chemistry, University ofTennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA, July 11-15, 1993 Special Publication of the Royal Society of Chemistry No. 143, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 1994. 

Davidson, M. G. Hughes, A. K. Marder, T. B. Wade, K. Contemporary Boron Chemistry. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Chemistry of Boron, University of Durham, Durham, UK, July 11-15, 1999 Special Publication of the Royal Society of Chemistry... 

Bubnov, Y. N. Boron Chemistry at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Chemistry of Boron, A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation, July 28-Aug. 1, 2002 A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation, 2003. 

Strauss, S. H. Contemporary Boron Chemistry. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Chemistry of Boron, University of... 

P. Paetzold, J. Muller, F. Meyer, H.-P. Hansen, L. Schneider, Current Topics in the Chemistry of Boron, (G. W. Kabalka, ed., Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 1994, p. 337. 

Philp, D. Dynamic Covalent Chemistry of Boron-Containing Heteroaromatic Systems. Proceedings of the 233rd American Chemical Society National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29. 2007. 

Alfred E. Stock. Former director of the Chemical Institute of the Tech-nische Hochschule of Karlsruhe. Former student of Henri Moissan and author of an excellent biographical sketch of him. Visiting lecturer at Cornell University in 1932. He is an authority on the high-vacuum method for studying volatile substances, the chemistry of boron, the preparation and properties of beryllium, and chronic mercurial poisoning. 

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