A category of fractions is a special case of acoinverter in the 2-categoryCat. We observe that, in a cartesian closed 2-category, the product of tworeflexive coinverter diagrams is another such diagram. It follows that an equational structure on a categoryA, if given by operationsA n →A forn eN along with natural transformations and equations, passes canonically to the categoryA [Σ−1] of fractions, provided that Σ is closed under the operations. We exhibit categories with such structures as algebras for a class of 2-monads onCat, to be calledstrongly finitary monads.