Borate carbonate

The borate carbonates are mixed anion compounds containing both borate and carbonate ions. Compared to mixed anion compounds containing halides, these are quite rare. They are hard to make, requiring higher temperatures, which are likely to decompose carbonate to carbon dioxide. The reason for the difficulty of formation is that when entering a crystal lattice, the anions have to be correctly located, and correctly oriented.[1] They are also known as carbonatoborates or borocarbonates.[2] Although these compounds have been termed carboborate, that word also refers to the C=B=C5− anion, or CB11H12− anion.[3] This last anion should be called 1-carba-closo-dodecaborate[4] or monocarba-closo-dodecaborate.[5]

Some borate carbonates have additional different anions and can be borate carbonate halides or borate carbonate nitrites.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Moureau, Magdeleine; Brace, Gerald. Dictionnaire des Science... (in French). Editions OPHRYS. p. 774. ISBN 978-2-7108-1109-1.
  3. ^ Ferraris, G.; Franchini-Angela, M. (1 February 1978). "Canavesite, a new carboborate mineral from Brosso, Italy". The Canadian Mineralogist. 16 (1): 69–73.
  4. ^ Douvris, Christos; Michl, Josef (9 October 2013). "Update 1 of: Chemistry of the Carba- closo -dodecaborate(−) Anion, CB11H12–". Chemical Reviews. 113 (10): PR179–PR233. doi:10.1021/cr400059k. PMID 23944158.
  5. ^ Tanaka, Naoki; Shoji, Yoshiaki; Fukushima, Takanori (13 June 2016). "Convenient Route to Monocarba- closo -dodecaborate Anions". Organometallics. 35 (11): 2022–2025. doi:10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00309.