ZrOCl2·8H2O: An efficient, cheap and reusable catalyst for the esterification of acrylic acid and other carboxylic acids with equimolar amounts of alcohols

Molecules

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 263-271

  Sun, Hong Bin ^a,b   Hua, Ruimao ^a   Yin, Yingwu ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acrylic acid; Alcohol; Carboxylic acid; Esterification; Zirconium (IV) dichloride oxide hydrate

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC ACID; ACRYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZIRCONIUM; ZIRCONYL CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ESTERIFICATION;

ACRYLATES; ALCOHOLS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CATALYSIS; ESTERIFICATION; ZIRCONIUM;

EID: 33646397079     PISSN: 14203049     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/11040263     Document Type: Article

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