self-esterification

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ esterification.

Noun

self-esterification (countable and uncountable, plural self-esterifications)

1. (organic chemistry) The production of one or more esters as a result of a compound reacting with itself.
   • 2023 February 5, Prachayapreaut Pengthong, Philippe Anthony Bopp, Siriporn Jungsuttiwong, Tanin Nanok, “Mechanistic insights into the self-esterification of lactic acid under neutral and acidic conditions”, in Journal of Molecular Structure, volume 1273, →DOI:

     The results from such a one-step liquid phase synthesis using shape-selective acidic zeolites suggest that the direct self-esterification of two molecules of LA, as shown in Fig. 1, could be an alternative to the conventional process