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SUBMITTER: Barbosa SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9330306 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Barbosa Sandro L SL Nelson David Lee DL Freitas Milton de S MS Dos Santos Wallans Torres Pio WTP Klein Stanlei I SI Clososki Giuliano C GC Caires Franco J FJ Wentz Alexandre P AP
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20220726 15
SiO<sub>2</sub>-SO<sub>3</sub>H, with a surface area of 115 m<sup>2</sup>/g and pore volume of 0.38 cm<sup>3</sup>g<sup>-1</sup>, and 1.32 mmol H<sup>+</sup>/g was used as a 20% <i>w</i>/<i>w</i> catalyst for the preparation of methyl salicylate (wintergreen oil or MS) from acetylsalicylic acid (ASA). A 94% conversion was achieved in a microwave reactor over 40 min at 120 °C in MeOH. The resulting crude product was purified by flash chromatography. The catalyst could be reused three times. ...[more]