Lithium chloride-assisted selective hydrolysis of methyl esters under microwave irradiation

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 3459-3470

  Wu, Xiao Ai ^a   Ying, Ping ^a   Liu, Jun Yang ^a   Shen, Heng Shui ^a   Chen, Yue ^b   He, Ling ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hydrolysis; Lithium chloride; Methyl esters; Microwave irradiation; N,N Dimethylformamide

Indexed keywords

ESTER DERIVATIVE; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; N,N DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRALITY; HYDROLYSIS; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION;

EID: 70349198295     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910902778001     Document Type: Article

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