B-O BOND LENGTHS IN BORON-OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
B-O BOND LENGTHS IN BORON-OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
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DOI:
10.1107/s0567740868001846
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发表时间:
1968-01-01
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通讯作者:
DINGLE, TW
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作者:
COULSON, CA;DINGLE, TW
A simple molecular-orbital treatment of the z-electrons in a large variety of planar boron-oxygen compounds shows that variations in bond length are reasonably well explained in terms of a n-bond order. The m-technique method is of no advantage here as compared with the simple Htickel method.In most boron-oxygen compounds, the boron atom is bonded to three or four oxygen atoms. In the latter case, the four BO bonds are arranged tetrahedrally around the boron atom. When only three bonds are formed, the boron atom is surrounded symmetrically by three oxygen atoms, all four atoms lying approxi-mately in the same plane. The bond length of the trig-onal BO bond varies over the range 1.28 to 1.43 3,. Since the boron-oxygen framework is planar, it is reasonable to assume that, as a first approximation, the wave function can be divided into a-and n-mo-lecular orbitals. Then, in analogy to carbon zc-electron systems, any differences in bond length might be attri-buted to differences in n-bond order. Therefore, it should be possible to apply a standard Hfickel type analysis to molecules containing trigonally bonded boron atoms. Applications of n-bond theory to BO bonds are rare. Coulson (1964) has used simple n-bond theory to explain the differences in bond length between the interior and exterior BO bonds in metaboric acid. Mateson (1960) has used it to correlate reaction rates of reactions involving substituted ethyleneboronic acids. Armstrong & Perkins (1967) have used the more sophisticated Pariser-Parr-Pople (PPP) method to in-vestigate some substituted phenylboronic acids. All