What is "methyldiborane"

Methyldiborane, CHBH, or monomethyldiborane is the simplest alkyldiborane, consisting of a methyl group substituted for a hydrogen in diborane. As with other boranes it exists in the form of a dimer with a twin hydrogen bridge that uses three-center two-electron bonding between the two boron atoms, and can be imagined as methyl borane (CHBH) bound to borane (BH). Other combinations of methylation occur on diborane, including 1,1-dimethylborane, 1,2-dimethyldiborane, trimethyldiborane, tetramethyldiborane, and trimethylborane (which is not a dimer). At room temperature the substance is at equilibrium between these molecules.

The methylboranes were first prepared by H. I. Schlesinger and A. O. Walker in the 1930s.