Hydrochloric Acid → Dimethylanilinium chloride

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Boron trifluoride diethyl etherate (138.7 g, 0.98 mole) is added to a diethyl ether solution of pentafluorophenylmagnesium bromide (3326 g, 4.17 moles) formed as in Example 24. The addition is at a rate allowing the mixture to reach reflux temperature. The mixture is heated at reflux for 18 hours. This mixture is then cooled to −10° C. and N,N-dimethylanilinium chloride (1142 grams, 2.06 moles) previously formed from concentrated HCl, water, and N,N-dimethylaniline is slowly added while keeping the temperature at about 0° C. After the addition, the mixture is stirred for one hour at −5° C. to 0° C. Then the two phases are separated, and the organic phase is washed with water and dried over MgSO4. The N,N-dimethylanilinium tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borane is precipitated by addition of hexane with stirring, and recovered by filtration.

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