Methanetrisulfonic Acid: A Highly Efficient Strongly Acidic Catalyst for Wagner-Meerwein Rearrangement, Friedel-Crafts Alkylation and Acylation Reactions. Examples from Vitamin E Synthesis

Methanetrisulfonic acid had been prepared for the first time over 140 years ago, but it was used only scarcely in chemical transformations. In the course of our activities dealing with key-steps of industrial syntheses of vitamins, e.g. economically important vitamin E (acetate), we found that metha...

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Main Authors: Francesco Pace, Thomas Netscher, Simone Hoppmann, Alois Haas, Fabrice Aquino, Werner Bonrath, Horst Pauling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2009-04-01
Series:Sustainability
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/1/2/161/