Zirconia prepared using polyethylene glycol as pore forming agent and modified with boron and/or tungstophosphoric acid as catalyst in the 2-phenoxyethanol acetylation with acetic acid

G. SATHICQ ; LILIAN OSIGLIO; LUIS R. PIZZIO; GUSTAVO P. ROMANELLI; MIRTA N. BLANCO

Conferencia; 4th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry (4th ICGC),; 2012

 The acetylation reaction is important for the protection of ?OH groups, and also to obtain compounds of interest for the pharmaceutical, cosmetics or food industries1. Here zirconia, prepared from zirconyl chloride and polyethylene glycol (P) of different molecular weight (MW) (400, 2000, 6000 Da) as pore forming agent, was impregnated with boric acid (B) and/or tungstophosphoric acid (W). The solids (PXB, PXW, PXBW, with X the MW of P) were tested as catalyst in the 2-phenoxyethanol acetylation with acetic acid