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A highly efficient synthetic procedure for deuteriating imidazoles and imidazolium salts

  • C. Hardacre*
  • , J. D. Holbrey
  • , S. E J McMath
  • *Corresponding author for this work
    • Queen's University Belfast

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    Abstract

    Both substituted imidazoles and 1,3-dialkylimidazolium salts can be fully deuteriated on the heterocyclic ring using D2O over heterogeneous Pd catalysts: deuteriated 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride and hexafluorophosphate ionic liquids can also be prepared in good yields utilising readily available and relatively low cost sources of deuterium.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)367-368
    Number of pages2
    JournalChemical Communications
    Issue number4
    Publication statusPublished - 21 Feb 2001

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