New, highly acidic ionic liquid systems and their application in the carbonylation of tolueneElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: experimental details. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b4/b403464c/

Abstract

Based on the surprisingly high solubility of AlCl₃ in ionic liquids of type [cation][(CF₃SO₂)₂N], a new class of highly acidic, ionic systems has been developed. First tests in toluene carbonylation revealed high potential of these new acidic ionic liquids as catalyst for arene functionaliziation reactions.