Rare earth metal trifluoromethanesulfonates catalyzed benzyl-etherification

Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 380-383

  Kawada, Atsushi ^a   Yasuda, Kayo ^b   Abe, Hitoshi ^b   Harayama, Takashi ^b  

^a NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Benzyl alcohol; Benzyl ether; Benzyl etherification; Lewis acid; Rare earth metal trifluoromethanesulfonate; Recyclable catalyst

Indexed keywords

ALKANOL; BENZYL ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; BENZYL DERIVATIVE; ETHER DERIVATIVE; LANTHANIDE; SULFIDE; THIOL DERIVATIVE; TRIFLUOROMETHANESULFONIC ACID; MESYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; ETHERIFICATION; POLYMERIZATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY;

CATALYSIS; ETHERS; MESYLATES; METALS, RARE EARTH;

EID: 0036513367     PISSN: 00092363     EISSN: 13475223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1248/cpb.50.380     Document Type: Article

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