Issue 10, 2001
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Chemical Communications

Ionic liquids as catalytic green solvents for nucleophilic displacement reactions

Christy Wheeler,a   Kevin N. West,a   Charles L. Liottab  and  Charles A. Eckert*a  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
E-mail: cae@che.gatech.edu

b School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

Abstract

We demonstrate the use of room-temperature ionic liquids as a catalytic, environmentally benign solvent for the cyanide displacement on benzyl chloride, replacing phase-transfer catalyzed biphasic systems and thus eliminating the need for a volatile organic solvent and hazardous catalyst disposal.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B101202A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
31 Jan 2001
Accepted
16 Mar 2001
First published
20 Apr 2001

Chem. Commun., 2001, 887-888

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C. Wheeler, K. N. West, C. L. Liotta and C. A. Eckert, Chem. Commun., 2001, 887 DOI: 10.1039/B101202A

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