Etherification of Ferrocenyl Alcohol by Highly‐efficient Ytterbium Triflate |
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| Authors: | Ran Jiang Yechen Shen Ying Zhang Xiaoping Xu Jinjun Shao Shunjun Ji |
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| Affiliation: | Key Laboratory of Organic Synthesis of Jiangsu Province, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China |
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| Abstract: | Nucleophilic substitution of ferrocenyl alcohols with various aliphatic alcohols in the presence of a catalytic amount of ytterbium triflate [Yb(OTf)3] was studied. It was found the unsymmetrical ferrocenyl ethers could be easily obtained in excellent yields when the reactions were performed in primary and secondary alcohols. However, in other organic non‐alcoholic solvents such as acetonitrile, the formation of symmetrical ferrocenyl ethers rather than unsymmetrical ones was observed. |
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| Keywords: | solvolysis ferrocenyl alcohols nucleophilic substitution ytterbium |
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