Ligand-Assisted Rate Acceleration in Lanthanum(III) Isopropoxide Catalyzed Transesterification of Carboxylic Esters
摘要:
The transesterification of an equimolar mixture of carboxylic esters and primary (1 degrees), secondary (2 degrees), and tertiary (3 degrees) alcohols in hydrocarbon solvents was promoted with high efficiency by a lanthanum(III) complex, which was prepared in situ from lanthanum(III) isopropoxide (1 mol %) and 2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethanol(2 mol %). The present La(III) catalyst was highly effective for the chemoselective transesterification in the presence of competitive 1 degrees- and 2 degrees-amines. Remarkably, esters were obtained in good to excellent yields as colorless materials without an inconvenient workup procedure.