Metal-free transesterification catalyzed by tetramethylammonium methyl carbonate

• Hatano, Manabu

• Tabata, Yuji

• Yoshida, Yurika

• Toh, Kohei

• Yamashita, Kenji

• Ogura, Yoshihiro

• Ishihara, Kazuaki

Abstract

Environmentally benign metal-free tetramethylammonium methyl carbonate is effective as a catalyst for the chemoselective, scalable, and reusable transesterification of various esters and alcohols in common organic solvents. In situ-generated highly active species, tetramethylammonium alkoxides, can greatly avoid self-decomposition at ≤110 °C, and are reusable. In particular, chelating substrates, such as amino alcohols, diols, triols, sugar derivatives, alkaloids, α-amino acid esters, etc., which deactivate conventional metal salt catalysts, can be used. A 100 gram scale biodiesel production was also demonstrated.

Journal

• Green Chemistry

  Green Chemistry 20 (6), 1193-1198, 2018-03-21

  Royal Society of Chemistry

Details

• CRID: 1050001338806833280
• NII Article ID: 120006486777
• HANDLE: 2237/00028332
• ISSN: 14639262
• Web Site: https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/26128
• Text Lang: en
• Article Type: journal article
• Data Source:
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  • CiNii Articles