Highly efficient direct aerobic oxidative esterification of cinnamyl alcohol with alkyl alcohols catalysed by gold nanoparticles incarcerated in a nanoporous polymer …

A Buonerba, A Noschese…

Index: Buonerba, Antonio; Noschese, Annarita; Grassi, Alfonso Chemistry - A European Journal, 2014 , vol. 20, # 18 p. 5478 - 5486

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Abstract

Abstract The selective aerobic oxidation of cinnamyl alcohol to cinnamaldehyde, as well as direct oxidative esterification of this alcohol with primary and secondary aliphatic alcohols, were achieved with high chemoselectivity by using gold nanoparticles supported in a nanoporous semicrystalline multi-block copolymer matrix, which consisted of syndiotactic polystyrene-co-cis-1, 4-polybutadiene. The cascade reaction that leads to the alkyl ...