Abstract
The benzoin condensation occurred easily within minutes when imidazolium salts 7–9 were used as catalysts at low concentrations (1 mol%) in tetrahydrofuran with 50% aqueous sodium hydroxide, and the benzoin yield rose to 91% on catalysis by 7c, N-methyl-N ‘benzylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate.
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