Namboodiri Vasudevan V, Varma Rajender S
Clean Processes Branch, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, MS 443, 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268, USA.
Org Lett. 2002 Sep 5;4(18):3161-3. doi: 10.1021/ol026608p.
[reaction: see text] An ultrasound-assisted preparation of a series of ambient-temperature ionic liquids, 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium (AMIM) halides, which proceeds via efficient reaction of 1-methyl imidazole with alkyl halides/terminal dihalides under solvent-free conditions, is described.