The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Cesium fluoride-promoted esterification of carboxylic acids. A practical alternative to the diazomethane method and direct conversion of organotin carboxylates

T Sato, J Otera, H Nozaki

Index: Sato, Tsuneo; Otera, Junzo; Nozaki, Hitosi Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1992 , vol. 57, # 7 p. 2166 - 2169

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Citation Number: 87

Abstract

a variety of carboxylic acids and alkyl halides are summarized in Table 11. The expected esters were generally obtained in reasonable yields except for tert-butyl and neopentyl iodides (entries 7 and 8). No restrictions were found with regard to the carboxylic acids. Bulky substituents do not affect the reaction (entries 11-13), and no isomerization was observed with a,,!?-and,!?, y-unsaturated carboxylic acids (entries 14-16). The optical ...