• Boron trifluoride is the inorganic compound with the formula BF3. This pungent, colourless, and toxic gas forms white fumes in moist air. It is a useful...
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    Boron trifluoride etherate, strictly boron trifluoride diethyl etherate, or boron trifluoride–ether complex, is the chemical compound with the formula...
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  • number of fluorine atoms, compared with boron trifluoride. It can also be called a borylene, as it contains boron with two unshared electrons. BF is isoelectronic...
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  • called Swart's reagent Arsenic trifluoride, AsF3 Berkelium trifluoride, BkF3 Bismuth trifluoride, BiF3 Boron trifluoride, BF3, a pungent colourless toxic...
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    All charge-neutral boron halides violate the octet rule, hence they typically are Lewis acidic. For example, boron trifluoride (BF3) combines eagerly...
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    example, fluoride (F−) and boron trifluoride (BF3) combined to give the tetrafluoroborate anion, BF4−. Boron trifluoride is used in the petrochemical...
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  • atom, and boron trifluoride, a Lewis acid by virtue of the boron atom having an incomplete octet of electrons. In forming the adduct, the boron atom attains...
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    Boron nitride is a thermally and chemically resistant refractory compound of boron and nitrogen with the chemical formula BN. It exists in various crystalline...
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  • adduct H3N−BF3 forms from ammonia and boron trifluoride, a reaction that cannot occur in water because boron trifluoride hydrolizes in water. 4 BF 3 + 3 H...
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    react vigorously even at cryogenic temperatures to give nitrogen gas, boron trifluoride, and hydrofluoric acid. High-volume applications such as DRAM computer...
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    arrangement of polar bonds in a more complex molecule. For example, boron trifluoride (BF3) has a trigonal planar arrangement of three polar bonds at 120°...
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    oxidation of the boronic acid by atmospheric oxygen. In this sequence the boronic ester allyl shift is catalyzed by boron trifluoride. In the second step...
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  • tetrafluoroborate is used in some fluxes used for brazing and to produce boron trifluoride. Sodium tetrafluoroborate can be prepared by neutralizing tetrafluoroboric...
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    autocatalytic. Two laboratory methods start from boron trichloride with lithium aluminium hydride or from boron trifluoride ether solution with sodium borohydride...
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    from the same one of the atoms involved in the bond. For example, boron trifluoride (BF3) and ammonia (NH3) form an adduct or coordination complex F3B←NH3...
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  • polyphosphoric acid and p-toluenesulfonic acid or Lewis acids such as boron trifluoride, zinc chloride, and aluminium chloride. Several reviews have been...
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    form a covalent bond with an electron pair. An example is boron trifluoride (BF3), whose boron atom has a vacant orbital that can form a covalent bond by...
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    to represent a Lewis adduct, such as Me3B·NH3. Another example is boron trifluoride diethyl etherate, BF3·Et2O. In a slightly different usage, the center...
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    orbital which can accept a pair of electrons. One notable example is boron trifluoride (BF3). Some other definitions of both bases and acids have been proposed...
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  • to be a compound that can receive this electron pair. For example, boron trifluoride, BF3 is a typical Lewis acid. It can accept a pair of electrons as...
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    thereby achieving criticality. Leona Woods was detailed to build boron trifluoride neutron detectors as soon as she completed her doctoral thesis. She...
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    Alternatives such as magnesium bromide, lithium tetrafluoroborate and boron trifluoride etherate were also developed to deprotect SEM group. Lipshutz, Bruce...
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  • water. Boron reacts with halogens to give the corresponding trihalides. Boron trichloride is, however, produced industrially by chlorination of boron oxide...
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  • carbonyls in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst, such as boron trifluoride (as boron trifluoride etherate) or titanium tetrachloride. In the Stork enamine...
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  • which abstract F− from BF4− to give the fluoroarene (ArF), along with boron trifluoride and nitrogen as the byproducts. The traditional Balz–Schiemann reaction...
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    geometry. Examples of molecules with trigonal planar geometry include boron trifluoride (BF3), formaldehyde (H2CO), phosgene (COCl2), and sulfur trioxide...
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  • ligands. It also forms Lewis adducts with group 13 Lewis acids like boron trifluoride. In superacids, it is possible to protonate acetonitrile. Acetonitrile...
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    tacticity. Polymerization is typically initiated with Lewis acids such as boron trifluoride. Gerd Schröder (2012). "Poly(Vinyl Ethers)". Ullmann's Encyclopedia...
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  • Boron fluoride can refer to: Boron monofluoride, a gas stable only at very low temperatures Boron trifluoride, a stable gas Diboron tetrafluoride (B2F4)...
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    as Lewis bases. For instance, diethyl ether forms a complex with boron trifluoride, i.e. borane diethyl etherate (BF3·O(CH2CH3)2). Ethers also coordinate...
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