US 7,585,994 B2
Process for the preparation of compounds containing perfluoroalkanesulfonic acid groups
Nikolai Ignatyev, Duisburg (Germany); Michael Schmidt, Seeheim-Jugenheim (Germany); Udo Heider, Winchester (United Kingdom); Peter Sartori, Utting (Germany); and Andry Kucheryna, Wuppertal (Germany)
Assigned to Merck Patent GmbH, Darmstadt (Germany)
Filed on May 31, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/443,278.
Application 11/443278 is a continuation of application No. 10/478969, granted, now 7,084,290, previously published as PCT/EP02/04917, filed on May 04, 2002.
Claims priority of application No. 101 26 929 (DE), filed on Jun. 01, 2001; and application No. 101 36 121 (DE), filed on Jul. 26, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2006/0217568 A1, Sep. 28, 2006
Int. Cl. C07C 303/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 558—54  [502/162; 429/306; 429/199; 429/200; 429/188; 429/205; 548/125; 558/44; 558/53] 10 Claims
 
1. A compound of the formula
Mn+[OSO2CF3]n,
in which Mn+ (n=1 or 2) is a ring of the formula

OG Complex Work Unit Drawing
X is P or N, and
R1
is
hydrogen, or
an alkyl group having from 1 to 16 carbon atoms,
where the ring is optionally partially subtituted by F, Cl, N(CnF(2n+1−x)Hx)2, O(CnF(2n+1−x)Hx), SO2(CnF(2n+1−x)Hx), CnF(2n+1−x)Hx, where 1≤n≤6 and 0≤x≤2n+1, alkylaryl, aryl and/or a heterocyclic group,
and where the alkyl group is optionally partially substituted by F, Cl, N(CnF(2n+1−x)Hx)2, O(CnF(2n+1−x)Hx), SO2(CnF(2n+1−x)Hx), CnF(2n+1−x)Hx, where 1≤n≤6 and 0≤x≤2n+1.