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Activated carbon was found to be able to entrap a certain amount of heteropoly acids, resulting in solid acid catalysts. Heteropoly acids thus entrapped were hardly removed even by extraction with hot water or hot methanol. The entrapped catalysts offer convenient methods for liquid-phase etherification of alcohols and vapor-phase selective esterification.
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