Chemistry Letters, Vol.36, No.12, 1408-1409, 2007
Synthesis of biodiesel fuels at room temperature in the presence of dimethyl ether
Vegetable oil such as corn, sunflower, rapeseed, soybean, and palm oil was completely transesterified into biodiesel fuel at short time because of high mass-transfer rate in the homogeneous solution formed by adding environmental-friendly solvent of dimethyl ether (DME).