Decaborane chemical reactions

EXPLOSION and FIRE CONCERNS flammable liquid NFPA rating Health 2, Flammability 3 Reactivity 1 dangerous fire hazard when exposed to heat or flame reacts violently with hydrogen and Raney nickel catalyst violent reaction with silver perchlorate forms an explosive reaction with nitnc acid and perchloric acid forms explosive mixtures with decaborane and tnethynylaluminum incompatible with sulfur trioxide forms explosive peroxides when exposed to air decomposition emits carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide vapors are heavier than air and may travel to ignition source and flash back use water spray, dry chemical, foam, or carbon dioxide for firefighting purposes. 

In the 1950s, both the United States and the Soviet Union had programs to use decaborane, BioH, as a rocket fuel. This chemical reacts violendy with oxygen according to the reaction, B10H14 +11 O2 5 B2O3 + 7 H2O. For... 

Pyrolysis of ethylene-diborane and trimethylborane-diborane mixtures (271, 272) yields 2-alkylpentaboranes, as well as mixtures of polyalkylated pentaboranes and alkylated decaboranes. The B NMR data for the alkylated pentaboranes obtained from the ethylene-diborane reaction (271) should be reinterpreted in favor of a downfield chemical shift effect of the alkyl group. 

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