title: Improved ester interchange catalysts
abstract: Mixed alkoxide/aryloxide clusters are long-lived and milder than previously reported ester interchange catalysts. They completely transform difficult substrates in a single synthetic operation with lower catalyst and reagent ester loadings. In addition to superior activities, these mixed clusters are kinetically less basic toward enolizable esters.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, CB3290 Venable Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, USA.
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Kissling
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Gagne