Synthesis of Chiral Ionic Liquids from Natural Amino Acids

Weiliang Bao, Zhiming Wang, Yuxia Li

The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 2002 · 240 citations · 20 references

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Abstract

For the first time, chiral imidazolium ionic liquids containing one chiral carbon (10a-c) were synthesized from the natural amino acids by a simple and straightforward procedure. The characteristics of the chiral ILs are very similar to the popular ionic liquids.

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