Abstract
The irradiation of diborane(6) dispersed in solid neon at 3 K with tunable far-ultraviolet light from a synchrotron yielded a set of IR absorption lines, the pattern of which implies a carrier containing two boron atoms. According to isotope effects and quantum-chemical calculations, we identified this new species as diborane(4), B2H4, possessing two bridging B-H-B bonds. Our work thus establishes a new prototype, diborane(4), for bridging B-H-B bonds in molecular structures.
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Chou, S. L., Lo, J. I., Peng, Y. C., Lin, M. Y., Lu, H. C., Cheng, B. M., & Ogilvie, J. F. (2015). Identification of diborane(4) with bridging B-H-B bonds. Chemical Science, 6(12), 6872–6877. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5sc02586a
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