“…8 N-Alkyl, 9 N-acyl, 10 N-fluoro, 11 N-oxide, 12 and other N-activated pyridinium salts 13 promote a broad range of valuable transformations or act as building blocks for cycloadditions, rearrangements, reductions, oxidations, transition metal couplings, and nucleophilic additions. 14 Protonated pyridinium salts such as pyridinium p-toluenesulfonate (PPTS), 15 a mild organic soluble acid, and pyridinium chlorochromate (PCC), 16 a mild organic soluble oxidant, represent two mainstay reagents in organic synthesis. In addition to synthetic applications, pyridinium salts have been exploited for their physicochemical properties as surfactants, phase transfer agents, optoelectronics, and dyes, and for their biological activities as antimicrobial agents.…”