R. H. Tale, R. N. Adude
Oct 2, 2006
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Tetrahedron Letters
Abstract
A novel 3-nitrobenzeneboronic acid is found to catalyse efficiently the acetylation of a wide range of alcohols as well as phenols with acetic anhydride in good to excellent yields at room temperature under solvent-free conditions. The reactions are clean and the catalyst is mild such that highly sensitive functional groups including oximes are stable to the reaction conditions.