Issue 9, 2003
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Chemical Communications

The first non-acid catalytic synthesis of tert-butyl ether from tert-butyl alcohol using ionic liquid as dehydrator†

Feng Shi,a   Hai Xiong,a   Yanlong Gu,a   Shu Guoa  and  Youquan Deng*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Center for Green Chemistry and Catalysis, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Lanzhou, 730000, China
E-mail: ydeng@ns.lzb.ac.cn
Fax: +86-931-8277088

Abstract

Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE), and isopropyl tert-butyl ether (IPTBE) have been synthesized for the first time over a non-acid ionic liquid as catalyst and dehydrator with high conversion (>90%) and selectivity (>90%) under mild conditions.

Graphical abstract: The first non-acid catalytic synthesis of tert-butyl ether from tert-butyl alcohol using ionic liquid as dehydrator

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B300714F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
20 Jan 2003
Accepted
12 Mar 2003
First published
28 Mar 2003

Chem. Commun., 2003, 1054-1055

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The first non-acid catalytic synthesis of tert-butyl ether from tert-butyl alcohol using ionic liquid as dehydrator

F. Shi, H. Xiong, Y. Gu, S. Guo and Y. Deng, Chem. Commun., 2003, 1054 DOI: 10.1039/B300714F

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