A comparative study on the performance of acid catalysts in the synthesis of levulinate ester using biomass‐derived levulinic acid: a review

P Gautam, S Barman, A Ali - Biofuels, Bioproducts and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
toxicity and fluid dynamic stability at moderate temperatures. Moreover, up to 5 wt% of
ethyl … Nandiwale et al. also studied a series of zeolites like modified H-ZSM-5, micro/meso-HZ-5, …

Solvents derived from biomass and their potential as green solvents

L Lomba, E Zuriaga, B Giner - Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable …, 2019 - Elsevier
… in the toxicity, being the most toxic compound butyl levulinate. … Short chain esters seem to
be the least toxic solvents in the … However, toxicity studies do not show a clear improvement …

Optimally designed reactive distillation processes for eco‐efficient production of ethyl levulinate

JA Vázquez‐Castillo… - Journal of Chemical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… convert biomass directly into esters.8 In this respect, further research into the production of
… Owing to the lack of reported probit models of toxicity of components considered in this work…

QSAR modelling for predicting the toxic effects of traditional and derived biomass solvents on a Danio rerio biomodel

E Zuriaga, B Giner, MS Valero, M Gómez, CB García… - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
… Analysing each studied family, a … in toxicity was clearly related to the length of the alkyl
chain of chemicals in the fish embryos, so the toxicity of alkyl esters in the lactate and levulinate

Production of levulinic acid and alkyl levulinates: a process insight

DDM Di Bucchianico, Y Wang, JC Buvat, Y Pan… - Green …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
… , regeneration, corrosivity and toxicity, reflecting some of the … In addition to high yields,
silica-based catalysts show high … of levulinate ester, particularly promising for methyl levulinate, …

Critical review on the synthesis of levulinate esters from biomass-based feedstocks and their application

J Shan, Q Wang, H Hao, H Guo - … Chemistry Research, 2023 - ACS Publications
… A series of sulfonated-based ILs were synthesized for the … only show great potential but
also are limited due to their complex production process, high synthesis cost, and certain toxicity. …

Evaluation of the toxicity profiles of three families of solvents from biomass: levulinate, lactate and furfural derivatives

E Zuriaga, L Lomba, CB García, MS Valero - Green Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
… In the case of esters (methyl, ethyl, and butyl levulinates and lactates), the IC 50 value …
These results show that the structure is correlated with toxicity, because when the length of the …

Methyl levulinate synthesis from rice husk employing e-waste derived silica supported nano CuO–CdSO4 photocatalyst: Assessment of production environmental …

R Samanta, R Chakraborty - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
… Methyl levulinate (ML) is one such levulinate ester having both a keto and ester group …
Remarkable mitigations (63.63% and 66.66%) have been achieved in GWP and ecotoxicity

Synthesis of water-soluble, fully biobased cellulose levulinate esters through the reaction of cellulose and alpha-angelica lactone in a DBU/CO 2/DMSO solvent …

M Pei, X Peng, Y Shen, Y Yang, Y Guo, Q Zheng… - Green chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
… The cellular toxicity of the as-prepared CLEs was also … esters to prepare a large library of
ester chemicals. To our delight, a series of mixed CLEs and cellulose pseudo-levulinate esters

Effect of supercritical carbon dioxide over the esterification of levulinic acid with ethanol using montmorillonite K10 as catalyst

VA da Silva Junior, LRS Kanda, A Zandona-Filho… - Journal of CO2 …, 2020 - Elsevier
… to esters obtained from other alcohols, ethyl levulinate has adequate physicochemical properties
such as high lubricity, lower toxicity… 8(A) to (D) present a series of comparisons between …