Parent hydride
Molecule made of a main-group element bound to hydrogen
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Parent hydrides are used in both the organic nomenclature, and inorganic nomenclature systems.
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Reactions and structure
Parent hydrides are useful reference compounds, but many are nonexistent or unstable. Group III parent hydrides exist only under extraordinary conditions. Borane dimerizes irreversibly. Gallane and heavier congeners polymerize, sometimes with loss of hydrogen. Plumbane and bismuthane, stibane, indane, thallane are unstable.