The acetylation of alcohols, phenols and amines is one of the most useful and versatile transformations in organic synthesis. Among them, the conversion of hydroxyl or amino group into the corresponding acetate or acetamide is essential due to its medicinal value. The growing environmental considerations, development of green processes using heterogeneous catalysts under solvent-free conditions has aroused great interest in recent years. The discovery of a new class of mesoporous amorphous aluminophosphate (AlP) have gained significant interest in organic fine chemical synthesis and their...

Nowadays, the important factor that has gained much attention towards renewable energy resources by reason of the depletion of non-renewable fossil fuels. Biodiesel is believed as an attractive alternative to diesel fuels and obtained by transesterification reaction of triglycerides with methanol in presence of base catalyst. Such a catalytic process, excess amount of glycerol is produced as main by-product (equivalent to 10 weight % of the total product) of biodiesel and it is delivered similar properties as diesel fuel. It is necessary to find the platform the conversion of Glycerol into...