Zinc bromide solution can be used as a transparent shield against radiation. It is used as an optimal catalyst for stereospecific and regioselective reaction of silacyclopropanes with carbonyl compounds. It finds an application as Lewis acid in organic reactions.
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Applications
Zinc bromide solution can be used as a transparent shield against radiation. It is used as an optimal catalyst for stereospecific and regioselective reaction of silacyclopropanes with carbonyl compounds. It finds an application as Lewis acid in organic reactions.
Solubility
Soluble in alcohol, ether, acetone and tetrahydrofuran.
Notes
Hygroscopic.
RUO – Research Use Only
Odabachian, Y.; Wang , Q.; Zhu, J. Tertiary Amines as Synthetic Equivalents of Vinyl Cations: Zinc Bromide Promoted Coupling of Propargylamines with alpha-Isocyanoacetamides To Give 2,4,5-Trisubstituted Oxazoles Initiated by an Internal Redox Process. Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19 (37), 12229-12233.
Tan, L.; Zhou, P.; Chen, C.; Liu, W. An efficient method for the construction of polysubstituted 4-pyridones via self-condensation of beta-keto amides mediated by P2O5 and catalyzed by zinc bromide. Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2681-2687.