A mechanism for the sulfonation of methyl esters with sulfur trioxide is proposed herein.
Reactions were studied in a falling film reactor and stability of the intermediate species verified by Density Functional Theory calculations at the B3LYP/6-31G(d) level. Mechanistic suppositions and experimental facts asserted a second order kinetic.
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