Protection of alcohol as corresponding acetate ester is one of the most fundamental and widely used strategies in contemporary organic chemistry. 1 Usually acetyl chloride and acetic anhydride are employed as the acylating agents in the presence of a convenient acidic or basic catalyst. 2 However, both the reagents are corrosive and lachrymator and involve the use of tertiary amines such triethylamine, pyridine and DMAP and therefore ...
[Freedlander, Richard S.; Bryson, Thomas A.; Dunlap, R. Bruce; Schulman, E. M.; Lewis, Charles A. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1981 , vol. 46, # 17 p. 3519 - 3521]
