Octadecaborane is an inorganic compound, a boron hydride cluster with chemical formula B18H22. It is a colorless flammable solid, like many higher boron hydrides. Although the compound has no practical applications, its structure is of theoretical and pedagogical interest.
Octadecaborane is an inorganic compound, a boron hydride cluster with chemical formula B18H22. It is a colorless flammable solid, like many higher boron hydrides. Although the compound has no practical applications, its structure is of theoretical and pedagogical interest.
==Synthesis== It is formed by oxidative degradation of B20H182− or by oxidative coupling of B9H12−.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).