Meerwein salts

Structural formula of the Meerwein salt trimethyloxonium tetrafluoroborate

As Meerwein salts are chemical compounds in the organic chemistry referred to arising from a Trialkyloxonium- cation and a tetrafluoroborate anion composed. The Meerwein salts are named after the German chemist Hans Leberecht Meerwein , who described the first compounds of this type.

Meerwein salts are strong alkylating agents that are used in synthesis reactions .

Often the experiment instructions only refer to the sea wine salt, but this is not precise. Meerwein himself first found and described the ethyl compound triethyloxonium tetrafluoroborate , another representative of this group of substances is, for example, trimethyloxonium tetrafluoroborate .

literature

Entry to sea wine salts. In: Römpp Online . Georg Thieme Verlag, accessed on July 16, 2012.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Hans Meerwein, Gerhard Hinz, Paul Hofmann, Erwin Kroning, Emanuel Pfeil: About Tertiary Oxonium Salts , I. In: Journal für Praktische Chemie . Vol. 147, No. 10/12, pp. 257-285, January 1937, doi : 10.1002 / prac.19371471001 .

[Meerwein-1] A ^b Hans Meerwein, Gerhard Hinz, Paul Hofmann, Erwin Kroning, Emanuel Pfeil: About Tertiary Oxonium Salts , I. In: Journal für Praktische Chemie . Vol. 147, No. 10/12, pp. 257-285, January 1937, doi : 10.1002 / prac.19371471001 .