Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.38, No.25, 5876-5878, 1999
B-H bond protonation in mono- and diprotonated borane complexes H3BX (X = N2H4, NH2OH, and H2O2) involving hypercoordinate boron
Structures of mono- and diprotonated borane complexes H3BX (X = N2H4, NH2OH, and H2O2) as well as their neutral analogues were calculated using the density functional theory method at the B3LVP/6-311+G** level. Global minimum structures (3, 9, and 14) for all of the monocations N4BX+ are B-N protonated with a three-center two-electron bond. Remarkably, in the case of monoprotonated hydrazine-borane H3BNH2NH2 (1), the B-H protonated H4BNH2NH2+ (3) was calculated to be 6.3 kcal/mol more stable than the N-protonated H3BNH2NH3+ (2), unexpectedly indicating that: the bonded electron pair of the B-H bond is a better donor than the nonbonded nitrogen electron pair in hydrazine-borane complex 1.