Croatica Chemica Acta, Vol. 81 No. 3, 2008.
Reminescences
Potassium Phosphate / Benzyltriethylammonium Chloride as Efficient Catalytic System for Transesterification
Ivica Cepanec
; BELUPO Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Research Department, Zagreb, Croatia
Andreja Živković
; BELUPO Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Research Department, Zagreb, Croatia
Anamarija Bartolinčić
; BELUPO Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Research Department, Zagreb, Croatia
Hrvoje Mikuldaš
; BELUPO Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Research Department, Zagreb, Croatia
Mladen Litvić
; BELUPO Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Research Department, Zagreb, Croatia
Sonja Merkaš
; Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Potassium phosphate (K3PO4) in the presence of benzyltriethylammonium chloride have been
found to catalyses the transesterifications of a wide variety of aliphatic and aromatic esters
with primary and secondary alcohols affording the corresponding esters in good-to-excellent
yields.
Keywords
transesterification; esters; alcohols; phase-transfer catalysts; alkali metal phosphates
Hrčak ID:
31140
URI
Publication date:
15.11.2008.
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