(1) Institute of Catalysis, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310028, P.R. China;(2) Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang Nomal University, Jinhua, 321004, P.R. China
Abstract:
A new Solid acid catalyst has been prepared by grafted BF3·Et2O on mesoporous molecular sieve MCM-41. The solid catalyst would effectively promote the opening reaction of epichlovohydrin with isobutanol to form 1-isobutoxy-3-chloropropanol, and showed a nice activity and selectivity.