Journal of the American Chemical Society

New Syntheses of Trialkylboranes1

EC Ashby

Index: Ashby Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1959 , vol. 81, p. 4791,4794

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Citation Number: 48

Abstract

Results and Discussion The addition of diborane to olefins was first reported by H~ rd,~ who described the reactions of ethylene and isobutylene with diborane in the gas phase to produce the corresponding trialkylboranes. Stone and Eme16uslo reported similar reactions with styrene, acrylonitrile and other substituted olefins. More recently Brown and SubbaRao have reported improvements in this reaction; according to these authors, diborane adds to ...