Halogens, reactions with tetrahydroborates

WHITE PHOSPHORIC ACID (7664-38-2) A medium-strong acid. Violent reaction with strong bases. Violent reaction if water is added to concentrated acid. To dilute, always add acid to water heat will be generated. Reacts violently with solutions containing ammonia or bleach, azo compounds, epoxides, and other polymerizable compounds. Reacts, possibly violently, with amines, aldehydes, alkanolamines, alcohols, alkylene oxides, amides, ammonia, ammonium hydrox-ide, calcium oxide, cyanides, epichlorohydrin, esters, halogenated organics, isocyanates, ketones, oleum, organic anhydrides, sodium tetrahydroborate, sulfides. 

There are few useful reactions in which new B—H bonds are formed. Although the formation of boranes from the protolysis of borides or the reduction of boron compounds with Hj, either in electrical discharges or in the presence of active metals, have historical importance, these methods have no importance or utility today. Indeed, the preparation of boranes is so dominated by the single common starting material, the tetrahydroborate ion, that the only important reactions in which B—H bonds are formed are those in which hydride ion either reduces species with B—O or B-halogen bonds to form boranes or adds to trifunctional boron compounds to form hydroborates. 

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