Lead (II) Nitrate Catalyzed Esterification Palmitic Acid with Alcohols

Abstract

Esters has been long known in some applications that has been attempted to prepare in many fashion methods. Several catalysts used based on acid either solid or liquid has been known popular. A transition salt also has been intensively reported catalyzes esterification. Very few catalysts from Group A metal shown activities esterification catalysis. Lead (II) nitrate shown a good catalyst performance in esterification long chain fatty acid reacts with primary and secondary alcohol. Palmitic acid reacts with alcohols, glycerol, 1,2-propane diol as well as stearyl alcohol gives high yield ester respectively. All ester has been characterized in FT-IR, 1H NMR and 13C NMR spectrophotometer shown the yield was 90-97%.