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THE ionic species B2H7−and B2H5+ are related electronically to diborane in the same way as ethane and acetylene are related to ethylene. The two series are isoelectronic. The similarity between the electronic structures of ethylene and diborane is well known1. No work, however, has previously been reported on the electronic structures of B2H7− and B2H5+, and on any possible relation between these structures and those of ethane and acetylene.
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DUKE, B. Structure of Ions related to Diborane. Nature 209, 1234–1235 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2091234a0
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