Pyridine → 1-Fluoropyridinium tetrafluoroborate

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To a 30 ml anhydrous acetonitrile solution containing 0.71 g (8.98 mmole) of pyridine a mixed gas of fluorine and nitrogen (1:9) was introduced at a rate of 20 ml/min. at -40° C. under vigorous stirring, the amount of fluorine gas introduced being 26 mmoles. Subsequently, at the same temperature, 1 ml (8.13 mmole) of an ethereal complex of boron trifluoride as the Lewis acid was added and the resulting solution was stirred for 5 hours. The post treatment was effected as in example 13 to give 0.91 g (yield: 69%) of N-fluoropyridinium tetrafluoroborate, the physical properties of which are reproduced in Table 6.

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