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Meerwein’s salt

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Meerwein’s salts, also known as the Meerwein reagents, refer to trimethyloxonium tetrafluoroborate (Me3O+BF4 -) and triethyloxonium tetrafluoroborate (Et3O+BF4 -). Named after the inventor Hans Meerwein,1 these trialkyloxonium salts are powerful alkylating agents.

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Li, J.J. (2014). Meerwein’s salt. In: Name Reactions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03979-4_166

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