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Can the absence of solvation of neutral reagents by ionic liquids be responsible for the high reactivity in base-assisted intramolecular nucleophilic substitutions in these solvent?
The kinetics of the rearrangement of the Z-phenylhydrazone
of 3-benzoyl-5-phenyl-1,2,4-oxadiazole (1a) into the relevant
4-benzoylamino-2,5-diphenyl-1,2,3-triazole (2a) induced by
amines have been studied in two room-temperature ionic
liquids (IL-1, [BMIM][BF4] and IL-2, [BMIM][PF6]). The
data collected show that the reaction occurs faster in ionic
liquids than in other conventional solvents previously
studied (both polar or apolar, protic or aprotic). Presumably,
this could depend on their peculiar ability to minimize the
strong substrate-solvent, amine-solvent and amine-amine
interactions occurring in conventional solvents
