Sun Lin-Bing, Shen Jie, Lu Feng, Liu Xiao-Dan, Zhu Li, Liu Xiao-Qin
State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210009, China.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Oct 7;50(77):11299-302. doi: 10.1039/c4cc04074k.
New solid strong bases were fabricated at room temperature by grafting lithium-containing molecular precursors onto β-cyclodextrin. The solid bases show strong basicity with a molecular-level dispersion of lithium sites, which are highly active in transesterification reactions and impossible to realize through the traditional high-temperature method.