Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. 1984, 49, 1559-1562
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19841559

A convenient preparation of 1-CB11H12- and its C-amino derivatives

Jaromír Plešek, Tomáš Jelínek, Eva Drdáková, Stanislav Heřmánek and Bohumil Štíbr

Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 250 68 Řež

Abstract

Treatment of 7-(CH3)3N-7-CB10H12 with triethylamineborane(3) at 180-200 °C proceeds under splitting off one methyl group and inserting one boron vertex to obtain 1-(CH3)2NH-1-CB11H11. Methylation of the latter compound produces 1-(CH3)3N-1-CB11H11 which can be reduced to the parent 1-CB11H12- anion with sodium in liquid ammonia. The constitution of all compounds was established by NMR and mass spectroscopy.