Selective acylation of alcohol has enjoyed great attraction of chemists due to its significance in synthetic organic chemistry especially in protecting group chemistry as reflected by the number of methods that have been developed to effect this transformation. To meet the challenging task of chemoselective transformation of aliphatic alcohols in the presence of phenolic alcohol mainly acidic c...

In this contribution, we report the successful preparation of supported metal catalysts using dendrimer-encapsulated Pt nanoparticles as metal precursors. Polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers were first used to template and stabilize Pt nanoparticles prepared in solution. These dendrimer-encapsulated nanoparticles were then deposited onto a commercial high surface area silica support and thermally...

Recently, H2O2 is drawing growing interest in green chemistry 15 because it acts as direct and environmental benign oxidant in organic synthesis [2] and because its high cost limits the use for the production of bulk organic chemicals. The synthesis of hydrogen peroxide by direct reaction between H2 and O2 is a very attractive alternative to traditional anthraquinone 20 process. Direct synthesi...

sulphuric acid adsorbed on silica gel is a practical and useful catalyst for acetylation of varius alcohols, phenols and amines.