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The boron hydrides in general are volatile, highly reactive substances. Their low boiling points (see Table 4-1) reflect their low molecular weights and feeble intermolecular forces. Their reactivities have a thermodynamic origin in that these compounds are markedly unstable with respect to replacement of their boron-boron and boron-hydrogen links by bonds to more electronegative elements. Some thermodynamic data bearing on this are in Tables 4-1 and 4-2.
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Wade, K. (1971). The general chemistry of the boron hydrides. In: Electron Deficient Compounds. Studies in Modern Chemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6054-4_4
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