SEQUENTIAL SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS ON B10H10-2 AND B12H12-2
SEQUENTIAL SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS ON B10H10-2 AND B12H12-2
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DOI:
10.1063/1.1701367
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发表时间:
1962-01-01
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
LIPSCOMB, WN
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作者:
HOFFMANN, R;LIPSCOMB, WN
IN comparison with boron hydrides and their ions the closed polyhedral Bl oHlO-2 of D4d symmetryI· 2 and B12H12-2 of icosahedral symmetry3 are so extraordinarily stable that they can be regarded as pseudoaromatic in character. They have also been reported4 to form a very interesting series of substitution derivatives, as yet incompletely identified, of the type BlOHlO_ nXn-2 where O::; n::; lO, and X= F, Cl, Br, or I. This indication that a large number of sequentially substituted derivatives can be prepared has led us to make predictions of reactivities of the B10HlO-2 and B12H12-2 ions in an effort to include resonance and inductive effects in unsubstituted and substituted polyhedral ions as formulated by an extension of our LCAO-MO descriptions· of B10HlO-2 and B12H12-2. We are encouraged by the initial prediction, verified by experiment2. 4 that apparent electrophilic attack by D+ appears to produce preferential exchange in BlOH10-2 at the two apices, which are more negatively charged than the eight other B atoms. Formulated in terms of a specific example, the question investigated here is the following: Suppose that attack by a halogen is electrophilic and that successive