We report the unusual crystal growth of 10-15 cm long tubular anilinium nitrate salts. The tubes resemble the bamboo structure, in which each shoot is 100-200 μm in length and around 10 μm in diameter. This growth is observed after mixing aniline and aluminium nitrate [Al(NO3)3] in methanol. The Royal Society of Chemistry 2010.
A Metal-Free and Ionic Liquid-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Bromination in Water
A metal-free aerobic oxidative bromination of aromatic compounds in water has been developed. Hydrobromic acid is used as a bromine source and 2-methylpyridinium nitrate ionic liquid is used as a recyclable catalyst. Water is used as the reaction mediate. This is the first report of aerobic oxidative bromination using only catalytic amount of metal-free catalyst. This system shows not only high bromine atom economy, but also high bromination selectivity. The possible mechanism and the role of the catalyst in this system have also been discussed.
High-throughput approach for the identification of anilinium-based ionic liquids that are suitable for electropolymerisation
We report the synthesis of new protic ionic liquids (PILs) based on aniline derivatives and the use of high-throughput (HT) techniques to screen possible candidates. In this work, a simple HT method was applied to rapidly screen different aniline derivatives against different acids in order to identify possible combinations that produce PILs. This was followed by repeating the HT process with a Chemspeed robotic synthesis platform for more accurate results. One of the successful combinations were then chosen to be synthesised on a larger scale for further analysis. The new PILs are of interest to the fields of ionic liquids, energy storage and especially, conducting polymers as they serve as solvents, electrolytes and monomers at the same time for possible electropolymerisation (i.e. a self-contained polymer precursor).
Abdelhamid, Muhammad E.,Murdoch, Timothy,Greaves, Tamar L.,O'Mullane, Anthony P.,Snook, Graeme A.
p. 17967 - 17972
(2015/07/07)
Mono-nitration of aromatic compounds via nitrate salts
A method of nitrating a compound selected from the group consisting of is provided.