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Abstract:
Designing superacids: A computational study of protonated boratabenzenes and the gas‐phase acidity of their conjugate acids is presented. Conjugate acids of boratabenzenes substituted with CN or CF3 groups (see figure) are highly acidic species; the protonated hexacyanoboratabenzene and hexakis(trifluoromethyl)boratabenzene have computational gas‐phase acidities of 250.5 and 276.8 kcal mol?1, respectively.
