Dehydrohalogenation and cleavage reactions in silicon-nitrogen-boron systems
Two sets of reaction conditions have been found where a dehydrohalogenation reaction occurred when triethylamine-boron trichloride adduct was allowed to react with hexamethyldisilazane. In one case both dehydrohalogenation and cleavage occurred, resulting in the formation of a novel unsymmetrical N-silyl-substituted aminohalogenoborane. Under the other set of conditions an N-silyl-substituted aminodihalogenoborane was produced as a result of only dehydrohalogenation.