Claims
- 1. A tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate.ether complex of Formula (4): where each of R1-R10 represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a hydrocarbon group, or an alkoxy group, provided that at least one of R1-R5 represents a fluorine atom and at least one of R6-R10 represents a fluorine atom, each of R11 and R12 represents a hydrocarbon group which may include a substituent group containing a hetero atom, Y represents a bivalent hydrocarbon group, M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, or alkaline earth metal halide, n represents 2 or 3, and m represents 1 when M represents a hydrogen atom, alkali metal, or alkaline earth metal halide, and 2 when M represents an alkaline earth metal.
- 2. A process for producing a tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate.ether complex of Formula (4): where each of R1-R10 represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a hydrocarbon group, or an alkoxy group, provided that at least one of R1-R5 represents a fluorine atom and at least one of R6-R10 represents a fluorine atom, each of R11 and R12 represents a hydrocarbon group which may include a substituent group containing a hetero atom, Y represents a bivalent hydrocarbon group, M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, or an alkaline earth metal halide, n represents 2 or 3, and m represents 1 when M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, or an alkaline earth metal halide, and 2 when M represents an alkaline earth metal, comprising:reacting tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate of Formula (5): where each of R1-R10 represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a hydrocarbon group, or an alkoxy group, provided that at least one of R1-R5 represents a fluorine atom and at least one of R6-R10 represents a fluorine atom, M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, or an alkaline earth metal halide, n represents 2 or 3, and m represents 1 when M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, or an alkaline earth metal halide, and 2 when M represents an alkaline earth metal,with an ether compound of Formula (6): R11—O—Y—O—R12 (6) where each of R11 and R12 represents a hydrocarbon group which may include a substituent group containing a hetero atom, and Y represents a bivalent hydrocarbon group.
- 3. The process for producing a tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate.ether complex of claim 2, wherein said tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate is a hydrogen compound of tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate, tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate.magnesium bromide, tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate.lithium, tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate.sodium, or tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate.potassium.
- 4. The process for producing a tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate.ether complex of claim 2, wherein said ether compound is selected from the group consisting of ethylene glycol dialkyl ether, ethylene glycol dicyclo alkyl ether, diethylene glycol dialkyl ether, triethylene glycol dialkyl ether, and ethylene glycol diaryl ether and mixtures thereof.
- 5. A process for producing a tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate derivative of Formula (2): where each of R1-R10 represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a hydrocarbon group, or an alkoxy group, provided that at least one of R1-R5 represents a fluorine atom and at least one of R6-R10 represents a fluorine atom, Z+ represents a monovalent cationic compound, and n represents 2 or 3, comprisingusing, as a starting material, a tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate.ether complex of Formula (4): where each of R1-R10 represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a hydrocarbon group, or an alkoxy group, provided that at least one of R1-R5 represents a fluorine atom and at least one of R6-R10 represents a fluorine atom, each of R11 and R12 represents a hydrocarbon group which may include a substituent group containing a hetero atom, Y represents a bivalent hydrocarbon group, M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, or an alkaline earth metal halide, n represents 2 or 3, and m represents 1 when M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, or an alkaline earth metal halide, and 2 when M represents an alkaline earth metal, and a compound generating monovalent cationic compounds.
- 6. The process for producing a tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate derivative of claim 5, wherein said monovalent cationic compounds are selected from the group consisting of ammonium cations, anilinium cations, pyridinium cations, quinolinium cations, phosphonium cations, sulfonium cations, iodonium cations, carbenium cations and mixtures thereof.
- 7. The process for producing a tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate derivative of claim 5, wherein said compound generating the monovalent cationic compounds is selected from the group consisting of a quaternary ammonium compound, a nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic compound, a quaternary phosphonium compound, a sulfonium compound, an iodonium compound, a carbenium compound and mixtures thereof.
- 8. The process for producing a tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate derivative of claim 5, wherein said compound generating the monovalent cationic compounds is selected from the group consisting of tri-n-butylamine.hydrochloride, N,N-dimethylaniline.hydrochloride, N,N-dimethylaniline.sulfate, quinoline.hydrochloride, N-methyl pyridine.iodide, tetraphenyl phosphonium bromide, trimethyl sulfonium iodide, diphenyl iodonium chloride, trityl chloride, and mixtures thereof.
- 9. The process for producing a tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate derivative of claim 5, wherein said process includes the step of removing an ether compound of Formula (6):R11—O—Y—O—R12 (6) where each of R11 and R12 represents a hydrocarbon group which may include a substituent group containing a hetero atom, and Y represents a bivalent hydrocarbon group, from said reaction.
- 10. The process for producing a tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate derivative of claim 9, wherein said ether compound is selected from the group consisting of ethylene glycol dialkyl ether, ethylene glycol dicyclo alkyl ether, diethylene glycol dialkyl ether, triethylene glycol dialkyl ether, ethylene glycol diaryl ether and mixtures thereof.
- 11. The process for producing a tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate derivative of claim 9, wherein, after obtaining tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate of Formula (5): where each of R1-R10 represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a hydrocarbon group, or an alkoxy group, provided that at least one of R1-R5 represents a fluorine atom and at least one of R6-R10 represents a fluorine atom, M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, or an alkaline earth metal halide, n represents 2 or 3, and m represents 1 when M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, or an alkaline earth metal halide, and 2 when M represents an alkaline earth metal, by removing said ether compound from said tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate.ether complex, said tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate is reacted with said compound generating the monovalent cationic compounds.
- 12. The process for producing a tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate derivative of claim 9, wherein, after obtaining a tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate derivative.ether complex of Formula (7): where each of R1-R10 represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a hydrocarbon group, or an alkoxy group, provided that at least one of R1-R5 represents a fluorine atom and at least one of R6-R10 represents a fluorine atom, each of R11 and R12 represents a hydrocarbon group which may include a substituent group containing a hetero atom, Y represents a bivalent hydrocarbon group, Z+ represents a monovalent cationic compound, and n represents 2 or 3, by reacting said tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate.ether complex with said compound generating the monovalent cationic compound, said ether compound is removed from said tetrakis(fluoroaryl)borate derivative.ether complex.
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Parent Case Info
This application is a divisional application of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/171,832 filed on Oct. 26, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,215,025, which is the national phase under 35 U.S.C. §371 of prior PCT International Application No. PCT/JP98/00946 which has an International filing date of Mar. 9, 1998 which designated the United States of America, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
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