Process for producing aryl esters

摘要

A catalyst for aryl ester production, which contains a microporous material containing a Group IV metal element, is insoluble in reaction fluids and hence can be used as a heterogenous catalyst. Thus it can permit an aryl ester to be produced in a high yield in an industrially advantageous manner. An aryl ester is produced with this catalyst by the transesterification between an aromatic hydroxy compound and a carbonic ester or an aliphatic carboxylic ester, by the transesterification between a carbonic ester and an arylcarboxylic ester, by the disproportionation of an alkyl aryl carbonate through esterification, and so forth.