| Literature DB >> 14986948 |
Todd A Houston1, Brendan L Wilkinson, Joanne T Blanchfield.
Abstract
Boric acid catalyzes the selective esterification of alpha-hydroxycarboxylic acids without causing significant esterification to occur with other carboxylic acids. The procedure is simple, high-yielding, and applicable to the esterification of alpha-hydroxy carboxylates in the presence of other carboxylic acids including beta-hydroxyacids within the same molecule. [reaction: see text]Entities:
Year: 2004 PMID: 14986948 DOI: 10.1021/ol036123g
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Org Lett ISSN: 1523-7052 Impact factor: 6.005