Communication

Chem. Commun., 2002, 1448 – 1449, DOI: 10.1039/b204409a

A new nido-5-vertex cluster, phosphacarba-nido-pentaborane, 2-^tBu-1,2-PCB₃H₅

Peter N. Condick, Mark A. Fox, Robert Greatrex, Cameron Jones and Daniel L. Ormsby

The gas-phase reaction of the phosphaalkyne PC^tBu with tetraborane(10), B₄H₁₀, yields the nido five-vertex phosphacarbaborane cluster compound 2-^tBu-1,2-PCB₃H₅2 with an unusual ³¹P NMR peak shift of –500.5 ppm.

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