Issue 21, 2016
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Green Chemistry

Selective monomethyl esterification of linear dicarboxylic acids with bifunctional alumina catalysts†

Veronica Santacroce,a   Franca Bigi,ad   Alessandra Casnati,a   Raimondo Maggi,a   Loretta Storaro,b   Elisa Moretti,*b   Luigi Vaccaro ORCID logo c  and  Giovanni Maestri ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Clean Synthetic Methodology Group, Dipartimento di Chimica dell'Università, Parco Area delle Scienze 17A, I-43124 Parma, Italy
E-mail: giovanni.maestri@unipr.it

b INSTM Dipartimento di Scienze Molecolari e Nanosistemi, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Via Torino 155/B, 30172 Mestre Venezia, Italy
E-mail: elisam@unive.it

c Laboratory of Green Synthetic Organic Chemistry, CEMIN - Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, Perugia, Italy

d Istituto IMEM-CNR, Parco Area delle Scienze 37/A, I-43124 Parma, Italy

Abstract

An environmentally friendly protocol for the selective protection of dicarboxylic acids is reported using methanol as a cheap esterifying agent and alumina as a heterogeneous catalyst; the selectivity of the process has been ascribed to a balanced acidity/basicity of the bifunctional alumina catalyst.

Graphical abstract: Selective monomethyl esterification of linear dicarboxylic acids with bifunctional alumina catalysts

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6GC01900E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
12 Jul 2016
Accepted
31 Aug 2016
First published
31 Aug 2016

Green Chem., 2016,18, 5764-5768

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Selective monomethyl esterification of linear dicarboxylic acids with bifunctional alumina catalysts

V. Santacroce, F. Bigi, A. Casnati, R. Maggi, L. Storaro, E. Moretti, L. Vaccaro and G. Maestri, Green Chem., 2016, 18, 5764 DOI: 10.1039/C6GC01900E

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