Talk:Borane
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Righty - a minor edit - have just changed deltahedral to polyhedral, which now corresponds with the relevent article. I believe the terms are synonymous
Stui 12:49, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Family or individual?
I'm sure borane is the name of a single chemical (BH3), that then gives rise to a group of similarly constituated chemicals, the boranes. Just like phenol and the phenols.
Borane seems to accept a proton and two electrons to form the borohydride ion, which forms ionic bonds to create sodium borohydride Am I correct, or misled? - Jack (talk) 14:28, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, borane is BH3, but also B(CH3)3 is a borane. So that part is correct.
- Boranes have an empty p-orbital, which can accept any Lewis base (i.e., it can accept anything that has an electron pair .. and borane will accept that). Technically, BH3 is not the compound, it exists as a dimer (B2H6), where each BH3 moiety accepts electron density from a B-H σ-bond from the other unit. Similar, it will accept H- (i.e. a proton with two electrons .. it does not accept protons, well, it is reacting with it, not forming 'complexes'!), Similarly, CN- can donate an electron-pair to it. This is the cyanoborohydride ion, [BH3CN]-. These things indeed form ionic salts e.g. NaBH4 and NaBH3CN. Etc. etc. So you are quite close to being right. Hope this clarified a bit. Do you feel this info is missing in the article? If so, I could have a look at it. --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:43, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
- So the chemical that should be borane is actually diborane? Damn, I was hoping for a system analogous of the alkanes... I was researching alternative biochemistrys, and came across boron as a charbon subsitute. Should this article be merged with organoborane? - Jack (talk) 15:23, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, for BH3 .. would be a better name .. and no, no merge between borane and the organoborane .. two different subjects. One could opt for a move of this page to diborane, and making borane a redirect to that page. --Dirk Beetstra T C 15:49, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
- No, ignore my last message .. diborane already exists, is about B2H6. This is page is about 'boranes' .. though a bit misleading in intro, I think. --Dirk Beetstra T C 15:51, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
- Agreed. Tagged as confusing. Thankyou for your help :) - Jack (talk) 20:05, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
- So the chemical that should be borane is actually diborane? Damn, I was hoping for a system analogous of the alkanes... I was researching alternative biochemistrys, and came across boron as a charbon subsitute. Should this article be merged with organoborane? - Jack (talk) 15:23, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Borane chemistry
Having just rewritten the Wades rule article I was surprised how sparse the coverage of boranes is. Thinking about it I agree with the above idea of this becoming a family page. There are too many boranes to warrant a compound article each, but there should be some coverage of them as a class with specific articles for the key compounds (which are there already). I would be happy to make a stab at enhancing it to become an over view of the main topics in borane chemistry including naming IUPAC, deltahedral structures, link to Wades rules, general chemistry, reactivity trends, isomerisation etc. Individual key compound articles could then have a 'see also' link back to it. Let me know! Axiosaurus 21:17, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
