NaOH in ethanol; water soln. of acid in EtOH was combined with NaOH in EtOH; aq. soln. of Ag salt was added dropwise with stirring at 343 K; stirred for 30 min at ambient temp.; filtered; washed (acetone/CH2Cl2, 1/1); dried in vac. for 24 h; elem. anal.;

in water an aq. soln. of silver nitrate added to an aq. soln. of the fatty acid sodium salt, stirred by Teflon magnetic stirrer; precipitate filtered and washed by ethanol and dried under vacuum;

hexan-1-ol in further solvent(s) byproducts: CH3(CH2)4CHO; fatty acid silver salt added to 1-hexanol; the suspension stirred and heated up to 413 K under MW irradiation within 2 min under N2 atmosphere; maintained for 5 min at 413 K (or 40 min at 383 K, or 1 min at 430 K) under repeated on-off MW irradiation; suspension cooled down by an air blower;