Catalytic Reductive Etherification of Ketones with Alcohols at Ambient Hydrogen Pressure: A Practical, Waste-Minimized Synthesis of Dialkyl Ethers
Lukas J. Gooßen*, Christophe Linder
*Institut für Chemie - Organische Chemie, TU Kaiserslautern,
Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße, Geb. 54, 67663 Kaiserslautern Email: goossen
chemie.uni-kl.de
L. J. Gooßen, C. Linder, Synlett, 2006, 3489-3491.
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-956484
see article for more reactions
Abstract
A heterogeneous platinum catalyst efficiently mediates the reductive etherification of ketones at ambient hydrogen pressure. In this transformation, water is released as the only by-product, and this is trapped with molecular sieves.
see article for more examples
Key Words
ethers, reductive etherification, platinum, catalysis, hydrogenation
ID: J60-Y2006-4850
