Cesium acetate may be used for the inversion of secondary alcohols to afford inverted acetates.

For R&D use onlynot for drug household or other uses.

Caesium acetate or cesium acetate is an ionic caesium compound with the molecular formula CH3CO2Cs often used in organic synthesis especially in Perkin synthesis formation of unsaturated cinnamic-type acids by the condensation of aromatic aldehydes with fatty acids.