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Offline fr.mat

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Can BCl4 - exist?
« on: January 12, 2015, 09:22:53 AM »
I know that boron is a small atom, and 4 chlorines are very big, so an ion BCl4- should be unstable but it has to exist! I have tried to
search the internet for more informations and some websites said that it can't exist. Who is right?

BCl3 + Cl- => BCl4-

Why shouldn't it exist?

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Re: Can BCl4 - exist?
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2015, 11:21:57 AM »
It exists, at least long enough to acquire vibrational spectra.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/1965/JR/JR9650006589#!divAbstract
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Re: Can BCl4 - exist?
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2015, 02:04:44 PM »
Thank you very much!
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