The review does, however, discuss the C2v structure in some depth, "It is to be recognized that this formulation easily accounts for many of the chemical properties of diborane..."In 1943 an undergraduate student at Balliol College, Oxford, H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, published the currently accepted structure together with R. P. Bell.
Bauerju se je sprva zdelo, da podprejo njegovo predlagano strukturo in fizikalne lastnosti borovega hidrida in njihovih derivatov.Zaradi osebne komunikacije z L. Pauling (ki so podprli etan podobno strukturo)in Schlessinger niso posebej razpravljali.