Scandium trifluoromethanesulfonate as an extremely active acylation catalyst

…, M Kubota, H Kurihara, H Yamamoto

Index: Ishihara, Kazuaki; Kubota, Manabu; Kurihara, Hideki; Yamamoto, Hisashi Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1995 , vol. 117, # 15 p. 4413 - 4414

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Abstract

4-(Dimethylamino) pyridine (DMAP) and 4-pyrrolidinopyridine (PPY) are known to catalyze the acylation of alcohols with acid anhydrides and to increase the rate of acylation by a factor of lo4.'Recently, Vedejs et al. reported tributylphosphine as a similar catalyst for the acylation of alcohols.* Although the mechanism of tributylphosphine catalysis is not yet the remarkable catalytic activity of these basic and nucleophilic catalysts can be interpreted by ...