Dehydration reactions in water. Surfactant-type Brønsted acid-catalyzed direct esterification of carboxylic acids with alcohols in an emulsion system

K Manabe, XM Sun, S Kobayashi

Index: Manabe; Sun; Kobayashi Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2001 , vol. 123, # 41 p. 10101 - 10102

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Citation Number: 154

Abstract

Recently, organic reactions in water have received much attention, because water is a cheap, safe, and environmentally benign solvent. 1 Our and others' studies on surfactant- type Lewis2 or Brønsted acid3 catalysts revealed that carbon-carbon bondforming ...