Strong acids, process for the preparation thereof, and uses thereof

US7094328B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Merck Patent GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev · Duisburg, DE
• Michael Schmidt · Weiterstadt, DE
• Andreas Kuhner · Darmstadt, DE
• Volker Hilarius · Groß-Umstadt, DE
• Udo Heider · Riedstadt, DE
• Andriy Kucheryna · Wuppertal, DE
• Peter Sartori · Rheinberg, DE
• Helge Willner · Neheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 11, 2002
• Grant date: Aug 22, 2006
• Expiry date: Jun 27, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E60/10
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention relates to acids of the general formula [I], [RyPF6-y]−H+ [I], where y=1, 2 or 3, and in which the ligands R may be identical or different and R is a perfluorinated C1-8-alkyl or aryl group or R is a partially fluorinated C1-8-alkyl or aryl group, in which some of the F or H may have been substituted by chlorine. The present invention furthermore relates to a process for the preparation of the acids according to the invention, to salts comprising a cation and the anion of the acid according to the invention, and to a process for the preparation of the salts. The invention furthermore relates to the use of the acids and salts according to the invention.