Departments of Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, 230026 China, School of Chemical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, ...

THE acetylation of sugars has hitherto involved the use of acetic anhydride and a catalyst such as sodium acetate 1, zinc chloride 2, sulphuric acid 3 or pyridine 4.We have shown that glucose may ...

Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials and iChem, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433 ...