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Highly efficient carbene and polycarbene catalysis of the transesterification reaction
Marichev, Konstantin A.,Korotkikh, Nikolai I.,Cowley, Alan H.,Saberov, Vagiz Sh,Glinyanaya, Nataliya V.,Rayenko, Gennady F.,Shvaika, Oles P.
supporting information, p. 365 - 376 (2018/05/07)
Highly efficient carbene and polycarbene catalysis of the transesterification reaction of ethyl benzoate in methanol has been observed and results in values of TON as high as 4000–6150 at a molar ratio of ester to methanol of 1:18 at room temperature. The most effective catalysts were found to be the individual carbenes or in situ generated carbenes, namely adamantyl and aromatic substituted cyclic compounds and polymeric carbenes. None of the reactions requires the use of molecular sieves. The polymeric imidazol-2-ylidene catalyst was used for the efficient production of biodiesel fuel from sunflower oil.
