Green Chemistry

Facile and efficient gold-catalyzed aerobic oxidative esterification of activated alcohols

L Wang, J Li, W Dai, Y Lv, Y Zhang, S Gao

Index: Wang, Lianyue; Li, Jun; Dai, Wen; Lv, Ying; Zhang, Yi; Gao, Shuang Green Chemistry, 2014 , vol. 16, # 4 p. 2164 - 2173

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Abstract

A facile and efficient methodology is presented for the direct oxidative esterification of alcohols with alcohols catalyzed by NaAuCl4. Just in the presence of a low catalytic amount of base additive, the newly developed catalytic system proceeds with high selectivity and broad substrate scope under mild conditions with dioxygen or air as the environmentally benign terminal oxidant. Various alcohols including benzylic and allylic alcohols were ...