Pearson Wayne H, Lin Shirley, Iovine Peter M
Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2007 Dec 12;64(Pt 1):o235. doi: 10.1107/S1600536807064367.
Crystals of the title compound, C(23)H(17)B(3)F(3)NO(3), were obtained unintentionally by slow evaporation of a chloro-form solution of the preformed boroxine-pyridine adduct. The mol-ecule contains three fluoro-substituted benzene rings, each bonded to one of the three B atoms of a six-membered boroxine ring. A pyridyl ring is also bound to one of the B atoms through a Lewis acid-base inter-action. The binding of the pyridyl substituent causes the otherwise planar boroxine ring to twist, resulting in a maximum torsion angle within the ring of 17.6 (2)°.