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beige crystalline powder

Displaces chloride from metal complexes.

Gold Catalysts — 21st Century ′Gold Rush′

Silver tetrafluoroborate is a transition metal salt extensively used in organic syntheses.
Gold Catalysts — 21st Century ′Gold Rush′
Displaces chloride from precious metal complexes used in the oxidation of alcohols by persulfate.
Provides a silver-ion template for improved macrolatamization of a linear dipeptide.

Silver tetrafluoroborate (AgBF4) is used as a Lewis acid in organic synthesis. It is known to have a high affinity towards organic halides. It is employed in organic reactions like activation of acyl chlorides, nucleophilic substitution, rearrangement, cycloaddition, cyclization, ring expansion and oxidation.

Preparation of silver tetrafluoroborate and MBDP
This reaction is completed with the lights off. In a 25 mL round-bottom flask covered with aluminum foil, AgBF4 (0.0397 g (0.20 mmol) is dissolved in 10 mL CH3CN. To the solution MBDP (0.0645 g, 0.20 mmol) is added and allowed to stir for 3 hours. The solution is concentrated under vacuum to approximately 3 mL then layered with Et2O. The flask is placed in the freezer. X-ray quality crystals are formed.