Solvent-Free Esterification of Carboxylic Acids Using Supported Iron Oxide Nanoparticles as an Efficient and Recoverable Catalyst

Fatemeh Rajabi; Mohammad Abdollahi; Rafael Luque

doi:10.3390/ma9070557

Solvent-Free Esterification of Carboxylic Acids Using Supported Iron Oxide Nanoparticles as an Efficient and Recoverable Catalyst

Materials (Basel). 2016 Jul 12;9(7):557. doi: 10.3390/ma9070557.

Authors

Fatemeh Rajabi¹, Mohammad Abdollahi², Rafael Luque³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Science, Payame Noor University, P.O. Box 19395-4697, Tehran 19569, Iran. f_rajabi@pnu.ac.ir.
² Department of Science, Payame Noor University, P.O. Box 19395-4697, Tehran 19569, Iran. mohammadabdollahichem@gmail.com.
³ Departamento de Química Orgánica, Universidad de Córdoba, Campus de Rabanales, Edificio Marie Curie (C-3), Ctra Nnal IV-A, km 396, Cordoba 14014, Spain. q62alsor@uco.es.

Abstract

Supported iron oxide nanoparticles on mesoporous materials (FeNP@SBA-15) have been successfully utilized in the esterification of a variety carboxylic acids including aromatic, aliphatic, and long-chain carboxylic acids under convenient reaction conditions. The supported catalyst could be easily recovered after reaction completion and reused several times without any loss in activity after up to 10 runs.

Keywords: carboxylic acid; esterification; supported iron oxide nanoparticles.