Autooxidation of 2-isobutyl-5,6-benzo-1,3,2-dioxaborepane

Using PMR, IR, and mass spectrometric methods it was shown that the main autooxidation product upon prolonged storage of 2-isobutyl-5,6-benzo-1,3,2-dioxaborepane is 2,2′-oxybis(5,6-benzo-1,3,2-doxaborepane). A. V. Bogatskii Physicochemical Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Odessa 270080. Organic Chemistry Institute, Ufa Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa 450054. Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 10, pp. 1418–1421, October, 1998.