Beasts of burden: Ionic liquids as carriers of reactive reagents

I&EC 243

Jason A. C. Clyburne, jason.clyburne@smu.ca, Department of Chemistry, Saint Mary's University, 923 Robie St., Halifax, NS B3H 3C3, Canada and Taramatee Ramnial, tramnial@sfu.ca, Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada.
Some of the more reactive materials, such as borane (BH3) and Grignard reagents, are too reactive to use safely in undergraduate teaching labs. Typically these are delivered in ethereal solvent that are typically flammable. As a component of our research program we have started to investigate the generation and use of new reagent mixtures in ionic liquids with the hope of introducing their use into teaching labs. As we all know, solvents play key roles in reaction pathways. They serve to homogenize reactants, act as heat sink for exothermic processes, and in many cases they act as a source of protons/hydrogen atoms in synthetic procedures. This presentation will report the preparation of some of these safely handled solutions as well as highlight some of the chemistry that we have observed in them that is unique for ionic liquids.
 

Ionic Liquids: Not Just Solvents Anymore OR Ionic Liquids: Parallel Futures (Sponsored by Green Chemistry and Engineering, Separation Science and Technology and Novel Chemistry with Industrial Applications Sub-Divisions)
1:30 PM-5:45 PM, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 Georgia World Congress Center -- B314, Oral

Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry

The 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 26-30, 2006