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Tetranitratoborate is an anion composed of boron with four nitrate groups. It has formula [B(NO3)4]. It can form salts with large cations such as tetramethylammonium nitratoborate, or tetraethylammonium tetranitratoborate. The ion was first discovered by C. R. Guibert and M. D. Marshall in 1966 after failed attempts to make neutral (non-ionic) boron nitrate, B(NO3)3, which has resisted attempts to make it; if it exists, it is unstable above −78 °C.

Other related ions are the slightly more stable tetraperchloratoborates, with perchlorate groups instead of nitrate, and tetranitratoaluminate with the next atom down the periodic table, aluminium instead of boron ([Al(NO3)4]).

Formation

Tetramethylammonium chloride reacts with BCl3 to make [N(CH3)4][BCl4]. Then the tetrachloroborate is reacted with N2O4 at around −20 °C to form tetramethylammonium nitratoborate, and other gases such as NO2Cl and Cl2.

Another mechanism to make tetranitratoborate salts is to shake a metal nitrate with BCl3 in chloroform at 20 °C for several days. Trichloronitratoborate [BCl3(NO3)] is an unstable intermediate.

MNO−3 + BCl3 → M[BCl3(NO3)]
4 M[BCl3(NO3)] → 3 M[BCl4] + M[B(NO3)4]

Properties

The infrared spectrum of tetramethylammonium nitratoborate includes a prominent line at 1,612 cm with shoulders at 1582 and 1,626 cm attributed to v4. Also prominent is 1,297 and 1,311 cm attributed to v1, with these vibrations due to the nitrate bonded via one oxygen.

The density of tetramethylammonium nitratoborate is 1.555 g·cm. It is colourless and crystalline. As tetramethylammonium nitratoborate is heated it has some sort of transition between 51 and 62 °C. It decomposes above 75 °C producing gas. Above 112 °C it is exothermic, and a solid is left if it is heated to 160 °C.

Tetramethylammonium nitratoborate is insoluble in cold water but slightly soluble in hot water. It does not react with water. It also dissolves in liquid ammonia, acetonitrile, methanol, and dimethylformamide. It reacts with liquid sulfur dioxide.

At room temperature tetramethylammonium nitratoborate is stable for months. It does not explode with impact.

Alkali metal tetranitratoborates are unstable at room temperature and decompose.

1-Ethyl-3-methyl-imidazolimium tetranitratoborate was discovered in 2002. It is an ionic liquid that turns solid at −25 °C.

References

  1. ^ Guibert, C. R.; M. D. Marshall (1966). "Synthesis of the Tetranitratoborate Anion". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 88 (1): 189–190. doi:10.1021/ja00953a051. ISSN 0002-7863.
  2. ^ Titova, K. V.; V. Ya. Rosolovskii (1970). "Tetraalkylammonium nitratoborates". Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Division of Chemical Science. 19 (12): 2515–2519. doi:10.1007/BF00854900. ISSN 0568-5230.
  3. Jones, CJ Bigler (2007). Transition and Main Group Metals Applied to Oxidative Functionalization of Methane and Use as High Oxygen Carriers for Rocket Propellants. p. 139. ISBN 9780549231066. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  4. ^ Titova, K. V.; V. Ya. Rosolovskii (1975). "Reaction of nitrates of monovalent cations with BCl3". Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Division of Chemical Science. 24 (10): 2246–2248. doi:10.1007/BF00929774. ISSN 0568-5230.
  5. C.C. Addison; D. Sutton. Progress in Inorganic Chemistry. Vol. 8. p. 216.
  6. Jones, C. Bigler; Ralf Haiges; Thorsten Schroer; Karl O. Christe (2006). "Oxygen-Balanced Energetic Ionic Liquid". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 45 (30): 4981–4984. doi:10.1002/anie.200600735. ISSN 1433-7851. PMID 16819744.
Salts and covalent derivatives of the nitrate ion
HNO3 He
LiNO3 Be(NO3)2 B(NO3)−4 RONO2
+CO3
+C2O4
NO3
NH4NO3
HOONO2 FNO3
+F
Ne
NaNO3 Mg(NO3)2 Al(NO3)3
Al(NO3)−4
Si P +SO4 ClONO2
+Cl
Ar
KNO3 Ca(NO3)2 Sc(NO3)3 Ti(NO3)4 VO(NO3)3 Cr(NO3)3 Mn(NO3)2 Fe(NO3)2
Fe(NO3)3
Co(NO3)2
Co(NO3)3
Ni(NO3)2 CuNO3
Cu(NO3)2
Zn(NO3)2 Ga(NO3)3 Ge As +SeO3 BrNO3
+Br
Kr
RbNO3 Sr(NO3)2 Y(NO3)3 Zr(NO3)4 NbO(NO3)3 MoO2(NO3)2 Tc Ru Rh(NO3)3 Pd(NO3)2 AgNO3 Cd(NO3)2 In(NO3)3 Sn(NO3)4 Sb4O4(OH)2(NO3)2 Te INO3
+IO3
Xe(NO3)2
CsNO3 Ba(NO3)2 * Lu(NO3)3 Hf(NO3)4 TaO(NO3)3 WO2(NO3)2 ReO3NO3 Os Ir3O(NO3)10 Pt Au(NO3)−4 Hg2(NO3)2
Hg(NO3)2
TlNO3
Tl(NO3)3
Pb(NO3)2 Bi(NO3)3
BiO(NO3)
Po(NO3)4 At Rn
FrNO3 Ra(NO3)2 ** Lr Rf Db Sg Bh Hs Mt Ds Rg Cn Nh Fl Mc Lv Ts Og
 
* La(NO3)3 Ce(NO3)3
Ce(NO3)4
Pr(NO3)3 Nd(NO3)3 Pm(NO3)3 Sm(NO3)3 Eu(NO3)3 Gd(NO3)3 Tb(NO3)3 Dy(NO3)3 Ho(NO3)3 Er(NO3)3 Tm(NO3)3 Yb(NO3)3
** Ac(NO3)3 Th(NO3)4 PaO(NO3)3 UO2(NO3)2 Np(NO3)4 Pu(NO3)4 Am(NO3)3 Cm(NO3)3 Bk(NO3)3 Cf(NO3)3 Es Fm Md No
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