A new class of CVD precursors to metal borides: Cr(B3H 8)2 and related octahydrotriborate complexes

Dean M. Goedde; Gregory S. Girolami

doi:10.1021/ja046906c

A new class of CVD precursors to metal borides: Cr(B₃H ₈)₂ and related octahydrotriborate complexes

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Abstract

Treatment of CrCl₃ with sodium octahydrotriborate, NaB₃H₈, affords a thermally unstable purple liquid thought to be a chromium(III) hydride of stoichiometry CrH(B₃H₈)₂. This hydride converts rapidly at room temperature to the chromium(II) complex Cr(B₃H₈)₂, which adopts a square-planar structure in which four hydrogen atoms form the coordination sphere of the chromium atom. This chromium(II) species forms six-coordinate Lewis base adducts Cr(B₃H₈)₂L₂, where L is Et₂O, thf, or PMe₃; the first two of these adopt trans geometries, whereas the latter is cis. Volatile Cr(B₃H₈)₂ is the first homoleptic transition metal complex of the octahydrotriborate anion, and it readily forms CrB₂ thin films by CVD at 250 °C.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	12230-12231
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of the American Chemical Society
Volume	126
Issue number	39
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/ja046906c
State	Published - Oct 6 2004

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