Patent ID: 6169208
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: C07F

Abstract:
A process which comprises contacting i) a solution comprising a liquid organic medium and a halomagnesium tetrakis(aryl)borate, wherein the liquid organic medium is comprised of one or more liquid dihydrocarbyl ethers, one or more liquid hydrocarbons, one or more liquid halogenated hydrocarbons, or mixtures thereof, and wherein each of the aryl groups is a fluorine-containing aryl group, each of which has bonded directly to an aromatic ring at least two fluorine atoms, or at least two perfluorohydrocarbyl groups, or at least one fluorine atom and at least one perfluorohydrocarbyl group, and ii) water, to produce magnesium di[tetrakis(aryl)borate] in the organic phase of a two-phase water/liquid organic medium.