Abstract Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), emerging as a new class of porous crystalline
materials, have recently received particular attention towards their prospective application in …

An overview is given of newly developed Lewis or Brønsted acid and base catalysts for
esterification, transesterification and ester interchange reactions. The most relevant …

Epoxy/dicarboxylic acid vitrimer was prepared by the solvent-free reaction of diglycidyl ether
of bisphenol A (DGEBA) and 1, 4-cyclohexane dicarboxylic acid (CHDA) with the addition of …

The history of terpenes and that of the Isoprene Rule have been reviewed. 2 A general
review on the basics of essential oil chemistry has appeared, 3 as have reviews on the …

Diphenylammonium triflate (DPAT) efficiently catalyzed esterification between equimolar
amounts of carboxylic acids and alcohols in good to excellent yields under mild reaction …

Three new compounds bearing different flexible side functional groups, viz. 2-
acetamidoterephthalic acid (H2L1), 2-propionamidoterephthalic acid (H2L2) and 2 …

Distannoxane catalysts effect acylation of alcohols by action of esters and acetic anhydride.
In particular, use of enol esters provides an extremely useful method. Primary alcohols are …

A series of new enantiomerically pure and racemic 1, 3-dioxolanes 1-8 was synthesized in
good yields and short reaction times by the reaction of salicylaldehyde with commercially …

Extremely strong nonionic superbases of the type P (RNCH2CH2) 3N catalyze the
transesterification of carboxylic acid esters with high selectivity and yields at 25° C. These …

This chapter represents a comprehensive overview of different protocols for the preparation
of esters and lactones and serves as an update to the review published in Comprehensive …