Tetrahedron letters

Rhodium catalyzed reductive esterification reactions

IJB Lin, HA Zahalka, H Alper

Index: Lin, Ivan J. B.; Zahalka, Hayder A.; Alper, Howard Tetrahedron Letters, 1988 , vol. 29, # 15 p. 1759 - 1762

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Abstract

Abstract Reductive esterification occurs when unsaturated acids are treated with hydrogen in alcohol using either rhodium trichloride or the dimer of chloro (1, 5-hexadiene) rhodium (I) as the catalyst. Saturated acids containing appropriate functional groups are also esterified under the same conditions.