Cyclopentyl methyl ether-NH4X: a novel solvent/catalyst system for low impact acetalization reactions

Green Chemistry International

Green Chem., 2015, Advance Article
*Corresponding authors
aDipartimento di Chimica e Farmacia, Università di Sassari, via Vienna 2, 07100 – Sassari, Italy
E-mail: ugo@uniss.it
Green Chem., 2015, Advance Article

DOI: 10.1039/C5GC00465A

Cyclopentyl methyl ether and ammonium salts provide an environmentally friendly reaction medium for the synthesis of acetals.
Cyclopentyl methyl ether-NH4X: a novel solvent/catalyst system for low impact acetalization reactions
Cyclopentyl methyl ether, a low impact ether forming a positive azeotrope with water, was successfully employed as a solvent in the synthesis of 1,3-dioxanes and 1,3-dioxolanes carried out under Dean-Stark conditions by the acetalization of aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes or ketones, employing ammonium salts as environmentally friendly acidic catalysts.

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