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Catalytic Esterification of Alcohols, Carboxylic Acids and Transesterification Reactions with Cerium(IV) Triflate

1999; Oxford University Press; Volume: 72; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1246/bcsj.72.455

1348-0634

Nasser Iranpoor, Marzieh Shekarriz,

Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions

Abstract Esterification reactions of alcohols with acetic, chloroacetic, trifluoroacetic, propionic, stearic, and benzoic acids were catalyzed with Ce(OTf)4 in a solvent or under solvent-free conditions with high yields. The formylation and acetylation of primary and secondary alcohols were also easily achieved in ethyl formate and ethyl acetate. A high retention of the configuration was observed in the acetylation and formylation of (−)-menthol.