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is working to spread the word that anhydrous lithium perchlorate in diethyl ether is a desirable solvent for enhancing rates of certain organic reactions. So soluble is lithium perchlorate that up to 47% solutions are possible in diethyl ether. Such usage runs counter to most chemists' sense that perchlorates and organics make a hazardous combination. But contact cites work of organic chemistry professor Paul A. Grieco, first at Indiana University, Bloomington, and now at Montana State University, to demonstrate rate enhancements of Diels-Alder, Michael addition, and Claisen rearrangement reactions.
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