Dv. Lanzisera et L. Andrews, REACTIONS OF LASER-ABLATED BORON ATOMS WITH METHYLAMINES - MATRIX INFRARED-SPECTRA AND MP2 FREQUENCY CALCULATIONS FOR ISOTOPIC PRODUCT MOLECULES, The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory, 101(5), 1997, pp. 824-830
Reactions of laser-ablated boron atoms with monomethylamine in argon p
roduce two new iminoboranes, CH3BNH and CH3NBH, as well as the related
isomer, CH2BNH2. Boron reactions with dimethylamine also generate the
se products and a third new iminoborane, CH3BNCH3. These molecules are
identified by matching observed matrix infrared and MP2 calculated B-
10/B-11 isotopic frequency ratios. In these reactions, the observed pr
oducts indicate that the primary reaction mechanisms involve boron ins
ertion into either the C-N or N-H bonds, instead of into the C-H bonds
.