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Boron trifluoride is a versatile Lewis acid that forms adducts with such Lewis bases as fluoride and ethers: CsF + BF 3 → Cs[BF 4] O(CH 2 CH 3) 2 + BF 3 → BF 3 ·O(CH 2 CH 3) 2. Tetrafluoroborate salts are commonly employed as non-coordinating anions.
Tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane, sometimes referred to as "BCF", is the chemical compound (C 6 F 5) 3 B.It is a white, volatile solid. The molecule consists of three pentafluorophenyl groups attached in a "paddle-wheel" manner to a central boron atom; the BC 3 core is planar.
Expressing resonance when drawing Lewis structures may be done either by drawing each of the possible resonance forms and placing double-headed arrows between them or by using dashed lines to represent the partial bonds (although the latter is a good representation of the resonance hybrid which is not, formally speaking, a Lewis structure).
Lewis dot diagram structures show three formal alternatives for describing bonding in boron monofluoride. BF is unusual in that the dipole moment is inverted with fluorine having a positive charge even though it is the more electronegative element. This is explained by the 2sp orbitals of boron being reoriented and having a higher electron density.
The trifluoride is produced by treating borate salts with hydrogen fluoride, while the trichloride is produced by carbothermic reduction of boron oxides in the presence of chlorine gas: [49] [51] B 2 O 3 + 3 C + 6 Cl 2 → 2 BCl 3 + 3 CO Boron (III) trifluoride structure, showing "empty" boron p orbital in pi-type coordinate covalent bonds
Slower oxidation with oxygen in a solvent or in the gas phase can produce dimethyltrioxadiboralane, which contains a ring of two boron and three oxygen atoms. However the major product is dimethylborylmethylperoxide, which rapidly decomposes to dimethoxymethylborane. [12] Trimethylborane is a strong Lewis acid.
The term dipolar bond is used in organic chemistry for compounds such as amine oxides for which the electronic structure can be described in terms of the basic amine donating two electrons to an oxygen atom. R 3 N → O. The arrow → indicates that both electrons in the bond originate from the amine moiety. In a standard covalent bond each ...
The debate over the nature and classification of hypervalent molecules goes back to Gilbert N. Lewis and Irving Langmuir and the debate over the nature of the chemical bond in the 1920s. [3] Lewis maintained the importance of the two-center two-electron (2c-2e) bond in describing hypervalence, thus using expanded octets to account for such ...