Research in Canada

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1939
• Weight: 213 KB
• Volume: 58
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000583804

✦ Synopsis

I n a siimming-up of his invcstigntions (12, p. 810) Bniier gives scrcrnl rulcs which hclpfiilly siiiiiinnrize tlic gcncral rclntionsliips of structiirc niid stability iii tlic boron hydride groitp, arid account for tlic non-csistcncc or instability of u number of liypothctical liydridcs. Tlicsc rulcs possess nrliiiitted liiiiitntions, nnd it is'cvidcnt tlint n full iindcrstnnding of tlic structural clicniistry of this group of coiii~ioniids lins not yet becn rcnchcd, nltliougli niiicli progress lins bccii ~iinde i n rccciit years. A fuller knowlcdgc of tlic nnturc of resonance nnd of clicinichl valcncy bonds will doubtlcss help to solvc tlic problcms aliicli remain.

Two contributions to tlic suhjcct have bccn made by Russian invcstigators, 11. 11. P l n t o i i o ~~~ nnd L. E. ligronoiiiov',16 but tlicsc do not nppear to be of fundamental iinportancc, and nrc only available in Russian.