A Facile and Efficient Method for Catalytic Acetylation of Alcohols with Acetic Acid

A Dewan, U Bora, DK Kakati

Index: Dewan, Anindita; Bora, Utpal; Kakati, Dilip Kumar Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, 2010 , vol. 31, # 12 p. 3870 - 3871

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Abstract

Protection of alcohol as corresponding acetate ester is one of the most fundamental and widely used strategies in contemporary organic chemistry. 1 Usually acetyl chloride and acetic anhydride are employed as the acylating agents in the presence of a convenient acidic or basic catalyst. 2 However, both the reagents are corrosive and lachrymator and involve the use of tertiary amines such triethylamine, pyridine and DMAP and therefore ...