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I don't really know anything about the oxaloborates, sorry. Can you synthesize them from the one of the borax hydrates? If so, what is the synthesis path? Nitr

• scythe 9y ago
  It's my understanding that alkali metal bisoxalatoborates can be prepared by heating the corresponding metaborates with oxalic acid ( https://www.google.com/patents/US7674911 https://www.google.com/patents/US7674911 ). I know the lithium salt was of interest as a more thermally stable battery electrolyte (relative to LiPF6), although interest eventually shifted to lithium difluorooxalatoborate (two fluorines and one oxalate attached to boron tetrahedrally) which is still stable enough for batteries but not as stable as LiBOB. LiBOB is reported to decompose at about 290 C ( http://ma.ecsdl.org/content/MA2010-02/9/597.full.pdf http://ma.ecsdl.org/content/MA2010-02/9/597.full.pdf ), so I would expect the heavier analogs to go somewhat higher, but I've never heard of these salts being considered in the case of thermal storage. I do not know the thermal limit of trisoxalatophosphate salts, only that they look like oxalatoborates and share with nitrates the property of being "non-coordinating".