This document discusses borazine, an inorganic compound analogous to benzene. Borazine has a planar structure with alternating boron and nitrogen atoms forming a six-membered ring. While similar to benzene in its cyclic structure and some physical properties, borazine is more reactive chemically due to the difference in electronegativity between boron and nitrogen. The document covers the history, structure, similarities and differences between borazine and benzene, as well as the physical and chemical properties of borazine.
This document discusses borazine, an inorganic compound analogous to benzene. Borazine has a planar structure with alternating boron and nitrogen atoms forming a six-membered ring. While similar to benzene in its cyclic structure and some physical properties, borazine is more reactive chemically due to the difference in electronegativity between boron and nitrogen. The document covers the history, structure, similarities and differences between borazine and benzene, as well as the physical and chemical properties of borazine.
This document discusses borazine, an inorganic compound analogous to benzene. Borazine has a planar structure with alternating boron and nitrogen atoms forming a six-membered ring. While similar to benzene in its cyclic structure and some physical properties, borazine is more reactive chemically due to the difference in electronegativity between boron and nitrogen. The document covers the history, structure, similarities and differences between borazine and benzene, as well as the physical and chemical properties of borazine.
This document discusses borazine, an inorganic compound analogous to benzene. Borazine has a planar structure with alternating boron and nitrogen atoms forming a six-membered ring. While similar to benzene in its cyclic structure and some physical properties, borazine is more reactive chemically due to the difference in electronegativity between boron and nitrogen. The document covers the history, structure, similarities and differences between borazine and benzene, as well as the physical and chemical properties of borazine.
RAJAT BHATTACHARYA BORAZINE CONTENTS • HISTORY • ABOUT • COMPARISION WITH BENZENE • STRUCTURE • PHYSICAL PROPERTIES • CHEMICAL PROPERTIES • USES HISTORY The compound was reported in 1926 by the chemists Alfred Stock and Erich Pohland by a reaction of diborane with ammonia. He was the first to study compounds such as the boranes, silanes, and other similar nonmetal compounds THE NAME 1. Borazine 2. Cyclotriborazaneborazol 3. Inorganic benzene 4. Borazole 5. Triboron Nitride 1,3,5,2,4,6- Triazatriborinane 6. Borazane WHAT ARE THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN BORAZINE AND BENZENE?
• Isoelectronic to benzene. - 42 electrons
• Isostreric to benzene (same no of atoms). - 12 atoms • Similar structure to benzene • Both are cyclic structures. • Both have a six-membered ring. • Have similar bond lengths between the atoms of the ring. • Both are colourless liquids at room temperature. The similarity of the physical properties of the alkyl-substituted derivatives of benzene and borazine is even more remarkable. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BORAZINE AND BENZENE • Borazine is inorganic. • Alternate bonds between Boron amd Nitrogen. • Comparatively more reactive. • Not a perfect hexagon. • Synthetic in nature. INORGANIC BENZENE IS A MISNOMER • This is a misnomer because the chemical properties of borazine and benzene are quite different. • Both compounds have aromatic π clouds of electron density with potential for delocalization over all of the ring atoms. • Due to the difference in electronegativity between boron and nitrogen, the cloud in borazine is “lumpy” because more electron density is localized on the nitrogen atoms. • This partial localization weakens the π-bonding in the ring. Each nitrogen receives more σ-electron density from neighbouring boron than it gives away as a π-donor. • The net effect is that the charge density on nitrogen increases. In addition, nitrogen retains its basicity and boron its acidity. Polar species such as HCI can, therefore, attack the double bond between nitrogen and boron. Thus, in contrast to benzene, borazine readily undergoes addition reactions: STRUCTURE OF BORAZINE
B3H6N3 STRUCTURE OF BORAZINE • It has a planar structure. • It is an aromatic ring. • Both Boron and Nitrogen are sp2 hybridized. • B- N bond in Borazine is a dative bond that arises from the sidewise overlap between the filled p orbitals of N atom and empty p orbitals of B atom. • N atom contains a lone pair. • B atom is electron deficient. • There • Is a partial delocalization of electrons in the ring. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF BORAZINE Compound: Borazole Formula: B3N3H6 Molecular Formula: B3H6N3 Molecular Weight: 81 Properties: inorganic analog of benzene Physical state. Colourless liquid Solubility. Hydrolyzes Density, g/cm3: 0.824 (0°C) Melting Point, °C: −58 Boiling Point, °C: 53 CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF BORAZINE At ordinary temperatures, both air and oxygen have no action on borazine. Hydrolyses in excess of water
Addition reaction. SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS.
Borazine undergo polymerization when strongly heated
under vacuum and yield biborazonyl and naphthazine whose structure are similar to biphenyl and naphthalene.
