Cyclopentyl methyl ether, a low impact ether forming a positive azeotrope with water, was successfully employed as a solvent in the synthesis of 1,3-dioxanes and 1,3-dioxolanes carried out under Dean-Stark conditions by the acetalization of aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes or ketones, employing ammonium salts as environmentally friendly acidic catalysts.
U. Azzena, M. Carraro, A. D. Mamuye, I. Murgia, L. Pisano and G. Zedde, Green Chem., 2015, 17, 3281 DOI: 10.1039/C5GC00465A
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