Facile and high-yield synthesis of methyl levulinate from cellulose-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Facile and high-yield synthesis of methyl levulinate from cellulose

Published:2018 Issue:6 Volume:20 Page:1323-1334
ISSN:1463-9262
Container-title:Green Chemistry
language:en
Short-container-title:Green Chem.

Author:

Huang Yao-Bing¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Yang Tao¹²³⁴⁵,Lin Yu-Ting¹²³⁴⁵,Zhu Ying-Zhi¹²³⁴⁵,Li Li-Cheng¹²³⁴⁵,Pan Hui¹²³⁴⁵

Affiliation:

1. Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for the Chemistry and Utilization of Agro-forest Biomass

2. College of Chemical Engineering

3. Nanjing Forestry University

4. Nanjing

5. China

Abstract

The production of alkyl levulinates from cellulose was successfully achieved by using a simple and efficient metal salt catalyst, Al₂(SO₄)₃, offering a high yield up to 70.6% under microwave conditions within a short reaction time of 40 minutes.

Funder

Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Pollution,Environmental Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2018/GC/C7GC02883K

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