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Aromatic nitrations in ionic liquids: the importance of cation choice
N Llewellyn Lancaster1, Verónica Llopis-Mestre
1Chemistry Department, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, UK SW7 2AX. l.lancaster@imperial.ac.uk
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 4, 2003
Abstract:
Aromatic substrates can be nitrated in high yields and with efficient use of the nitrating agent in ionic liquids, although a suitably inert ionic liquid cation must be used.