High magic

King, Francis and Stephen Skinner. Techniques of High Magic a handbook of divination, alchemy, and the evocation of spirits. Rochester (VT) Destiny Books, 2000. 240p. ISBN 0-89281-818-2... 

King, Francis and Stephen Skinner. Techniques of high magic A manual of selfinitiation. London Affinity P, 1997. 

In 1854, before he wrote his first book on High Magic, Levi visited London to meet with fellow occultists and conduct a necromantic ritual that he wrote about in his book. By the later half of the nineteenth century, interest in the occult had continued to grow in England. Unlike Levi, who initiated himself and professed his ideas openly, the English occultists preferred to meet in secret societies. The most... 

High Magic The magical synthesis developed by Eliphas Levi... 

The high acidity of superacids makes them extremely effective pro-tonating agents and catalysts. They also can activate a wide variety of extremely weakly basic compounds (nucleophiles) that previously could not be considered reactive in any practical way. Superacids such as fluoroantimonic or magic acid are capable of protonating not only TT-donor systems (aromatics, olefins, and acetylenes) but also what are called (T-donors, such as saturated hydrocarbons, including methane (CH4), the simplest parent saturated hydrocarbon. 

Dramatic rate accelerations of [4 + 2]cycloadditions were observed in an inert, extremely polar solvent, namely in5 M solutions oflithium perchlorate in diethyl ether(s 532 g LiC104 per litre ). Diels-Alder additions requiring several days, 10—20 kbar of pressure, and/ or elevated temperatures in apolar solvents are achieved in high yields in some hours at ambient pressure and temperature in this solvent (P.A. Grieco, 1990). Also several other reactions, e.g, allylic rearrangements and Michael additions, can be drastically accelerated by this magic solvent. The diastereoselectivities of the reactions in apolar solvents and in LiClO EtjO are often different or even complementary and become thus steerable. 

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