“…Secondly, a series of organic bases have been investigated for this conversion, and the results are shown in Table 1. The results demonstrate that DBU is the best catalyst (95.2 % yield, Table 1, entry 1), while only 90.0 % and 86.6 % of yield were obtained when 1,1,3,3‐tetramethylguanidine12c, 15 (entry 2), and 1,5,7‐triazabicyclo[4.4.0]dec‐5‐ene (entry 3) were used as a catalyst, respectively. After analysis triethylamine and triethylenediamine were shown to be not ideal catalysts for the transesterification of triglyceride, as only very low yields of FAMES were achieved under identical conditions (Table 1, entry 4, 5).…”