1. This is most pronounced when the boron compound has very bulky substituents. 2. Diborane is a key boron compound with a variety of applications. 3. Boron compounds are used as fertilizers in agriculture and in sodium perborate bleaches.4. :There aren't pools of silicon or boron compounds lying around waiting to be burnt. 5. Later, he discovered that boron compounds could also be enlisted in synthesizing carbon-containing molecules. 6. Werheit " et al . " reviewed Raman spectra of numerous icosahedron-based boron compounds . 7. Thus, boron compounds are often regarded as electron-deficient solids. 8. It is a useful Lewis acid and a versatile building block for other boron compounds . 9. The product is not nickel boride but nanoparticles of nickel disperses in a boron compound matrix. 10. Related fluoro-substituted boron compounds , such as those containing B-CF 3 groups, decompose with formation of B-F bonds.