Unlike in conventional organic solvents where transition metal catalysts are required, decaborane olefin-hydroboration reactions have been found to proceed in biphasic ionic-liquid/toluene mixtures wi
An efficient and diastereoselective synthetic protocol for the construction of spiro[cyclohexane-1,3′-indolin]-3-en-2′-ones and spiro[cyclohexane-1,2′-inden]-3-ene-1′,3′-diones was provided by HOAc-
The study of suitable probe reactions is a powerful tool to investigate the properties of nonconventional solvents such ionic liquids (ILs). In particular, we studied the acid-catalyzed mononuclear re
The access to free, unsolvated ions at high concentrations and ambient temperatures enabled by ionic liquids results in previously unobserved reactivity for even well-studied ions, demonstrated here b
