A wide variety of substrates, including carboranes, metallocarboranes, and boron hydrides, were found to undergo catalytic isotopic exchange of terminal hydrogen with deuterium gas in the presence of various transition metal complexes. A mechanism is postulated which rationalizes the varied results and which involves oxidative addition of boron-hydrogen bonds to catalytic species.
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Hoel et al. (1977) studied this question.