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Synthesis of chiral ionic liquids from natural amino acids
Weiliang Bao1, Zhiming Wang, Yuxia Li
1Zhejiang University, Xi Xi Campus, Department of Chemistry, Hangzhou, P R China. wbao@mail.hz.zj.cn
The Journal of Organic Chemistry
|January 18, 2003
Abstract:
For the first time, chiral imidazolium ionic liquids containing one chiral carbon (10a-c) were synthesized from the natural amino acids by a simple and straightforward procedure. The characteristics of the chiral ILs are very similar to the popular ionic liquids.