Potassium tetraphenylborate is the salt with the formula KB(C6H5)4).
The salt has a low solubility in water of only 1.8×10−4 g/L.
It is, however, soluble in organic solvents.
The insolubility of this compound has been used to determine the concentration of potassium ions by precipitation and gravimetric analysis:[1] The compound adopts a polymeric structure with bonds between the phenyl rings and potassium.
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