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It was found that mercuric chloride has a specific oxidative effect on the anions of dicarbadodecahydronidoundecaborates in THF or pyridine, which consists in the preferential replacement of hydride hydrogen by the ligand in the 8 position of the anion.
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D. C. Young, D. V. Home, and H. F. Hawthorne, J. Am. Chem. Soc.,91, 859 (1969).
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 10, pp. 2376–2377, October, 1979.
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Zakharkin, L.I., Kalinin, V.N. & Zhigareva, G.G. Oxidation of dicarbadodecahydronidoundecaborate anions by mercuric chloride in tetrahydrofuran and pyridine. Russ Chem Bull 28, 2198–2199 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00947583
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