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Magic acid (FSO3H-SbF5) is a superacid consisting of a mixture most commonly in a 1:1 molar ratio of fluorosulfuric acid (HSO3F) and antimony pentafluoride (SbF5). This conjugate Brønsted–Lewis superacid system was developed in the 1960s by the George Olah lab at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and has been used to stabilize carbocations and hypercoordinated carbonium ions in liquid media.
