Open AccessUse of Ionic Liquids for the Diels‐Alder Reaction of Oleochemicals
Author(s) -
Behr A.,
Naendrup F.,
Nave S.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
engineering in life sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.547
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1618-2863
pISSN - 1618-0240
DOI - 10.1002/elsc.200303042
Subject(s) - ionic liquid , derivatization , catalysis , organic chemistry , chemistry , diels–alder reaction , ion , high performance liquid chromatography
Recently, ionic liquids have found increasing attention as new reaction media, especially for homogeneously catalyzed syntheses in liquid‐liquid biphasic systems. Their physical and chemical properties are very attractive and can be tuned by a proper choice of the organic cation as well as of the anion. This report presents the use of ionic liquids as reaction media and catalysts for the derivatization of long‐chain fatty acid esters by Diels‐Alder reaction.