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Boric acid catalyzed chemoselective esterification of α- hydroxycarboxylic acids
Houston, Todd A.,Wilkinson, Brendan L.,Blanchfield, Joanne T.
, p. 679 - 681 (2007/10/03)
Boric acid catalyzes the selective esterification of α- hydroxycarboxylic acids without causing significant esterification to occur with other carboxylic acids. The procedure is simple, high-yielding, and applicable to the esterification of α-hydroxy carboxylates in the presence of other carboxylic acids including β-hydroxyacids within the same molecule.