Novel role of carbon monoxide as a Lewis acid catalyst for Friedel-Crafts reaction

S Ogoshi, H Nakashima, K Shimonaka…

Index: Ogoshi; Nakashima; Shimonaka; Kurosawa Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2001 , vol. 123, # 35 p. 8626 - 8627

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Abstract

The Friedel-Crafts reaction, in which a Lewis acid plays a crucial role to improve the efficiency of the reaction, is the most important and traditional method to introduce an alkyl group into an aromatic ring. 1 Thus far, a gaseous Lewis acid, such as BF3, has been employed as a very useful Lewis acid due to the simple separation from the reaction mixture, despite its corrosive and expensive nature. Thus, a gaseous, noncorrosive, and ...