Talk:Tetramethyldiborane

A fact from Tetramethyldiborane appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 September 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that methyldiborane, dimethyldiborane, trimethyldiborane and tetramethyldiborane burst into flame on exposure to air?

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Monomer or dimer?[edit]

Congratulations on getting these pages on DYK.

Reading the article, it is not clear to me whether the monomer can exist as such or whether only the dimer can be observed under "normal" conditions (I believe that the free radical monomers can be observed as a short-lived species in flow tubes). The lead suggests that the monomer can be observed, but the title of the article is the dimer.

On a more general point, the putative monomer needs to be named as dimetyl monoborane because of possible ambiguity with other dimethyl oligo-boranes, not just the B₂ species, TMDB.

No link to Organoboron chemistry! Petergans (talk) 09:58, 10 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]