Xu, Yueting published the artcileHydrogen bonding-catalyzed alcoholysis of propylene oxide at room temperature, Category: ethers-buliding-blocks, the publication is Chemical Communications (Cambridge, United Kingdom) (2021), 57(70), 8734-8737, database is CAplus and MEDLINE.
Alcoholysis of propylene oxide (PO) was achieved over azolate ionic liquids (IL, e.g., 1-hydroxyethyl-3-Me imidazolium imidazolate) at room temperature to access glycol ethers R1OCH2CHOHR2 [R1 = Me, Et, iPr, etc.; R2 = Me, Et] in high yields with excellent selectivity (e.g., >99%). Mechanism investigation indicated that cooperation of hydrogen-bonding of the anion with methanol and that of the cation with PO catalized the reaction. This catalytic protocol was simple, green, highly efficient and might had promising applications in the production of glycol ethers.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, United Kingdom) published new progress about 1589-47-5. 1589-47-5 belongs to ethers-buliding-blocks, auxiliary class Aliphatic hydrocarbon chain,Alcohol,Ether, name is 2-Methoxypropan-1-ol, and the molecular formula is C25H23NO4, Category: ethers-buliding-blocks.
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