A. Massey
1968
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Advances in Inorganic Chemistry and Radiochemistry
Abstract
Publisher Summary It is now almost 150 years since Gay-Lussac and Thenard first isolated ammonia-boron trifluoride, H3NBF3, and so initiated a study of the boron halides. Since that time, notably during the past 30 or so years, a tremendous volume of research has been carried out on the halides, ranging from their use in syntheses of hydrides and borohydrides required for rocketry and wartime atomic energy projects to the very extensive use of boron trifluoride as a catalyst in the petroleum industry, polymer production, and organic chemistry generally. This review will be concerned only with the chemistry of the boron halides, and will neglect studies of their catalytic activity and of their more physical properties except where the latter (e.g., structural studies) have a direct bearing on the chemistry. Nomenclature is always a headache and never more so than in boron chemistry, thus B2Cl, might be more correctly called tetrachlorodiborane- 4, but few chemists would immediately recognize this as diboron tetrachloride.