Decomposition of transition-metal amidinates [M{MeC(NiPr)2} n ] [M(AMD) n ; M=MnII, FeII, CoII, NiII, n=2; CuI, n=1) induced by microwave heating in the ionic liquids (ILs) 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([BMIm][BF4]), 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate ([BMIm][PF6]), 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium trifluoromethanesulfonate (triflate) ([BMIm][TfO]), and 1-butyl-3-methyl...

Weakly coordinating anions (WCAs) have been a subject of intensive research in the past decades due to their increasing importance in coordination chemistry and catalysis [1 – 6]. These applications have grown out of basic research into the special properties of anions containing hydrocarbon and fluorocarbon functionality such as [SO3CF3], [B(C6F5)4], [OTeF5] [7]. Owing to the importance of WCA...

Degradation of imidazolium ionic liquid, [bmim][TFSA] and iodide solution of [bmim][TFSA] by UV-laser irradiation has been studied through ground state absorption and transient absorption spectroscopy. We found that excited state [bmim] undergoes degradation efficiently. Introduction Room-temperature ionic liquids are receiving considerable attention because of their remarkable properties, such...

A mild and efficient process has been developed for the one-pot adamantylation of aromatic substrates employing 1-AdaOH, 1-AdaCl, 1-AdaBr, and 1-Br-3,5,7-trimethyladamantane as adamantylating agents, with triflic acid (TfOH) as promoter and n-butylmethylimidazolium triflate [BMIM][OTf] room temperature ionic liquid (IL) as solvent. The influence of reaction temperature, reaction time and the am...

In the title compound, C(20)H(21)BrN(2)O(2), the bromo-phenyl ring is twisted by 40.13 (8)° from the benzimidazole mean plane and the Br atom deviates by 0.753 (1) Å from that plane. The sec-butyl group is disordered over two conformations in a 0.898 (5):0.102 (5) ratio. In the crystal, mol-ecules related by translation along [[Formula: see text]10] are linked into chains via weak C-H⋯Br hydrog...

The behavior of the ionic liquid (IL) 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ([bmim][Tf(2)N]) entrapped in two reverse micelles (RMs) formed in an aromatic solvent as dispersant pseudophase: [bmim][Tf(2)N]/benzyl-n-hexadecyldimethylammonium chloride (BHDC)/chlorobenzene and [bmim][Tf(2)N]/sodium 1,4-bis-2-ethylhexylsulfosuccinate (AOT)/chlorobenzene, was investigated usin...

A practical and green synthesis of 3-substituted indoles is reported via three-component coupling reaction of indoles, aldehydes and N-methylaniline in the presence of the acidic ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogen sulfate ([BMIm]HSO4) under ultrasound irradiation at room temperature. The significant features of this procedure are high yields of the products, simple work-up, opera...

Grazing-incidence x-ray diffraction measurements were carried out to observe the surface structure of [bmim][PF(6)]. At an incident angle of less than the critical angle, a diffraction pattern from 10 nm beneath the surface was obtained. A broad Debye-Scherrer ring was observed in the diffraction patterns, indicating that the [bmim][PF(6)] molecules near the surface are randomly orientated, sim...