Schlosser’s base

August 8th, 2008 by

Schlosser’s base describes various superbasic mixtures of an alkyllithium compound and a potassium alkoxide. Commonly, the mixture is composed of n-butyllithium and potassium tert-butoxide. The reagent is named after Manfred Schlosser, though he uses the term LICKOR superbase (LIC denoting the alkyllithium, and KOR denoting the potassium alkoxide).

Further reading

Schlosser, M. (1988). “Superbases for organic [...]

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