@article {4481,
	title = {Microwave oven synthesis of esters promoted by imidazole.},
	journal = {Tetrahedron Letters},
	volume = {44},
	year = {2003},
	month = {2003 Feb 24},
	pages = {1831-3},
	abstract = {<p>Using imidazole as promotion agent, primary, secondary and phenolic alcohol compounds were esterified with aliphatic and aromatic carboxylic acid anhydrides. Heating a ternary mixture of alcohol, anhydride and imidazole in an unmodified microwave oven produced esters in low to high yields, depending on the steric bulk of the alcohol.</p>
},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040403903001047},
	author = {Hirose, Takuji and Kopek, Benjamin G and Wang, Zhao-Hui and Yusa, Ritsuko and Baldwin, Bruce W.}
}
