Levulinic acid: perspectives of its biobased production and most promising derivatives

JAC Silva, LM Grilo, MH Vasconcelos… - Production of Top 12 …, 2022 - Elsevier
… to develop renewable and low-toxicity alternatives to supply, at … to other reactions to produce
a series of derivatives, which will be … The physical properties of the levulinate esters—and …

… precursor, reduction temperature, and support on the catalytic properties of nickel phosphide catalysts in continuous-flow reductive amination of ethyl levulinate

Y Wang, AL Nuzhdin, IV Shamanaev… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Levulinate esters (eg, ethyl levulinate, EL) are considered as an alternative to LA due to their
specific physicochemical properties [6,7,8]. Unlike LA, its esters … All XRD curves show the …

Microscale In Vitro Assays for the Investigation of Neutral Red Retention and Ethoxyresorufin-O-Deethylase of Biofuels and Fossil Fuels

S Heger, K Bluhm, J Brendt, P Mayer, N Anders… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
… In the present study, three potential biofuels, ethyl levulinate, … established biodiesel (BD;
rapeseed oil methyl ester, RME). … (Agilent technologies 1200 series equipped with G1315C DAD …

[HTML][HTML] Lipase as a green and sustainable material for production of levulinate compounds: state of the art

KC Badgujar, VC Badgujar, BM Bhanage - Materials Science for Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
… Although all these solid acid catalysts offer moderate to excellent yield of levulinate ester,
the actual employment of these solid acid catalyst is greatly hampered in practical application …

Catalytic insights into the production of biomass-derived side products methyl levulinate, furfural and humins

L Filiciotto, AM Balu, JC Van der Waal, R Luque - Catalysis Today, 2018 - Elsevier
Levulinate esters are a promising class of biomass derivatives with low toxicity, high … high
alcohol/water ratios, making alkyl levulinates a more attractive platform chemical as compared …

Conversion of levulinate ester and formic acid into γ-valerolactone using a homogeneous iron catalyst

MC Fu, R Shang, Z Huang, Y Fu - Synlett, 2014 - thieme-connect.com
show the importance of γ-valerolactone production in biomass conversion. γ-Valerolactone
can be obtained through hydrogenation of levulinic acid or levulinate esters… , and no toxicity. …

Levulinic acid: A sustainable platform chemical for novel polymer architectures

GC Hayes, CR Becer - Polymer Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
… compounds that show promising plasticizing … levulinate via Pd catalysed esterification
between LA and vinyl acetate with the aim of developing a novel source of biosourced vinyl esters. …

Probing the mechanism of the conversion of methyl levulinate into γ-valerolactone catalyzed by Al (OiPr) 3 in an alcohol solvent: a DFT study

Z Ju, S Feng, L Ren, T Lei, H Cheng, M Yu, C Ge - RSC advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
… oxygen atom of the ester to catalyze the reaction. The present … in food and drink because
of its fruit flavour and low toxicity. … utilized a series of Al–Zr mixed oxides to obtain an 83.2% …

Levulinate amidinium protic ionic liquids (PILs) as suitable media for the dissolution and levulination of cellulose

S Becherini, A Mezzetta, C Chiappe… - New Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
… to prepare ILs and on their toxicity have been posed in recent … , ESI†) show the characteristic
bands of the levulinate anion, … of Lev PILs, as well as any ester band. This proves that no …

Physicochemical properties of green solvents derived from biomass

L Lomba, B Giner, I Bandrés, C Lafuente, MR Pino - Green chemistry, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
… The ecotoxicity of these solvents is very low, and thus their … for furfural, while the ester butyl
levulinate shows the lowest … The solvents derived from biomass studied in this work show