Single-pot synthesis of zinc nanoparticles, borane (BH3) and closo-dodecaborate (B12H12)2− using LiBH4 under mild conditions
- 25 March 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Dalton Transactions
- Vol. 42 (23), 8420-8425
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c3dt00092c
Abstract
Reduction of ZnCl2 using LiBH4 in mesitylene yielded zinc nanoparticles (Zn-NPs), borane (BH3) and closo-dodecaborate (B12H12)2−. The BH3 evolved gas was trapped as Ph3P:BH3 adduct while closo-(B12H12)2− was extracted by methanol and characterized from spectral data.Keywords
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