Diborane manufacturing methods

Dlbor ine(6). This compound is manufactured by Gallery Chemical Co. ia Gallery, Peimsylvania. Laboratory-scale preparations are given ia equations 4—64 5 6, of which the last may be the most convenient method. Diborane is the most important starting material for all the other boron hydrides. 

War research forced us to explore new synthetic routes and we discovered the alkali metal hydride route to diborane. This solved the synthetic problem. At the same time we discovered sodium borohydride and developed simple synthetic methods for its preparation and manufacture. 

Kitahara, K., T. Shimada, N. Akita, H. Tadashi, and K. Sasaki. 1989. Method for cleaning gas containing toxic components, such as arsine, diborane, and monosilane from semiconductor manufacturing. European Patent, Mar. 29 cited in Chem. Abstr. CA 777(8) 63274y. 

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