Reacts violently with water and other protic solvents
Solubility
Soluble in CH2Cl2, CCl4
Vapor pressure
7.2 kPa (20 °C)
Refractive index (nD)
1.00207
Viscosity
7.31 x 10−4 Pa s (20 °C)
Thermochemistry
Heat capacity (C)
0.2706 J/K
Std molar entropy (S⦵298)
228 J/mol K
Std enthalpy of formation (ΔfH⦵298)
-0.8207 kJ/g
Hazards
Occupational safety and health (OHS/OSH):
Main hazards
Reacts violently with water, potassium, sodium, and alcohols; attacks metals, wood, and rubber[1]
GHS labelling:
Pictograms
Signal word
Danger
Hazard statements
H300, H314, H330 Within the European Union, the following additional hazard statement (EUH014) must also be displayed on labeling: Reacts violently with water.
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Infobox references
Chemical compound
Boron tribromide, BBr3, is a colorless, fuming liquid compound containing boron and bromine. Commercial samples usually are amber to red/brown, due to weak bromine contamination. It is decomposed by water and alcohols.[2]
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^"Boron Tribromide". Toxicologic Review of Selected Chemicals. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. 2018-09-21.
Borontribromide, BBr3, is a colorless, fuming liquid compound containing boron and bromine. Commercial samples usually are amber to red/brown, due to...
implied by their empirical formulae. Lighter main group halides such as borontribromide do not show this tendency, in part due to the smaller size of the central...
Lewis base and a Lewis acid. For example, with a Lewis acid such as borontribromide it forms stable 1 :1 adducts such as Br3B · PBr3. At the same time...
intermediates, i.e. [RO(H)CH3]+Br−. Some ethers undergo rapid cleavage with borontribromide (even aluminium chloride is used in some cases) to give the alkyl bromide...
+ 2 MeOH Another method is reaction of an arylsilane (RSiR3) with borontribromide (BBr3) in a transmetallation to RBBr2 followed by acidic hydrolysis...
Boron trifluoride is the inorganic compound with the formula BF3. This pungent, colourless, and toxic gas forms white fumes in moist air. It is a useful...
Boron reacts with halogens to give the corresponding trihalides. Boron trichloride is, however, produced industrially by direct chlorination of boron...
N-dimethylformamide to generate a small amount of hydrogen iodide in situ. Borontribromide, which can be used at room temperature or below, is a more specialized...
carbon monoxide. It can also be produced by the metathesis reaction of borontribromide and tungsten hexachloride. WBr6 is reduced with elemental antimony...
Boron triiodide is a chemical compound of boron and iodine with chemical formula BI3. It has a trigonal planar molecular geometry. Boron triiodide can...
planar as their boron analogues are: this is due to the influence of the 6d5/2 electrons on the bonding. The heavier nihonium tribromide (NhBr3) and triiodide...
protic acids and water by lewis acids such as stannic chloride and borontribromide. The halogen is now the nucleophile recombining with the carbocation...
scale with a 98% yield by reacting trimethylaluminium in hexane with borontribromide in dibutyl ether as a solvent. Yet other methods are reacting tributyl...
The methoxy groups of DMpillar[5]arene were then deprotected using borontribromide and removed to give pillar[5]arene. Ogoshi and Kanai decided naming...
HN3 → 2 B(N3)3 + 6 H2 The compound can also be obtained by passing borontribromide vapor over solid silver azide in high vacuum. BBr3 + 3 AgN3 → B(N3)3...
"Preparation of actinide bromides and bromo-complexes by use of liquid borontribromide or liquid bromine". Journal of the Chemical Society A: Inorganic, Physical...
some antibacterials. Boron trifluoride and trichloride are used as catalysts in organic synthesis and electronics; the tribromide is used in the manufacture...
forms the B ring and totarylmethyl ether which is demethylated by borontribromide to yield totarol. A more recent organic synthesis of totarol was achieved...
1 N,n-Butyl imidazole UN 2691 8 Phosphorus pentabromide UN 2692 8 Borontribromide UN 2693 8 Bisulfites, aqueous solutions, n.o.s. UN 2694 to 2697 ? (UN...
bonds are first cleaved using hydrogen iodide (HI), boron trichloride (BCl3), or borontribromide (BBr3) that produces alkyl halides. Then, the alkyl...
described in an early review: "using a non-protic Lewis acid, aluminium tribromide, were able to demonstrate the truly catalytic effect of titanium by treating...
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