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AbstractDiborane has long been realized to be analogous to ethylene in terms of its bonding MOs, both as to symmetries and splitting patterns. This naturally suggests an investigation to see whether other similar conjugated hydrocarbons manifest a similar boron‐substituted and H2 supplemented borane. That is, for a conjugated hydrocarbon structure with a neighbor‐paired resonance pattern, we propose to look at boranes where each carbon atom is replaced by a boron atom, and an H‐atom pair is added to each double bond of the resonance structure, with one H above the molecular plane and one below. This construction of concatenated diboranes is uniformly different than that for the previously known stable boranes of 4 or more B atoms. We find from quantum‐chemical computations that our so constructed polyboranes are stable. All this suggests a possible novel new chapter in borane chemistry – a chapter with some promise of understandings related to that for (alternant) conjugated hydrocarbons.
Conjugated Hydrocarbons, Borophane, Planarity, Quantum Chemistry, Quantum chemistry, Boron
Conjugated Hydrocarbons, Borophane, Planarity, Quantum Chemistry, Quantum chemistry, Boron
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