Recent advances in the preparation of levulinic esters from biomass-derived furanic and levulinic chemical platforms using heteropoly acid (HPA) catalysts

NS Bhat, SS Mal, S Dutta - Molecular Catalysis, 2021 - Elsevier
The esters of biomass-derived levulinic acid (LA) have several potential applications,
including cleaner-burning fuel additive, green solvent, fragrance ingredient, and a …

Sustainable production of levulinic acid and its derivatives for fuel additives and chemicals: progress, challenges, and prospects

M Sajid, U Farooq, G Bary, MM Azim, X Zhao - Green Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Levulinic acid (LA) is one of the most promising biomass-derived platform chemicals owing
to its wider convertibility to a large number of commodity chemicals. Numerous LA …

Current Approaches to Alkyl Levulinates via Efficient Valorization of Biomass Derivatives

X Liu, W Yang, Q Zhang, C Li, H Wu - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Biomass is a potential non-food, carbon-neutral, and abundant resource, which can be used
as an alternative to fossil fuels during the sustainable preparation of various platform …

Conversion of levulinic acid and alkyl levulinates into biofuels and high-value chemicals

L Yan, Q Yao, Y Fu - Green Chemistry, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Levulinic acid (LA) is one of the most important biomass-derived platform molecules and can
be produced from both C5 and C6 carbohydrates via tandem dehydration and hydrolysis …

Catalytic conversion of furfuryl alcohol or levulinic acid into alkyl levulinates using a sulfonic acid-functionalized hafnium-based MOF

SSR Gupta, ML Kantam - Catalysis Communications, 2019 - Elsevier
Biomass conversion using reusable solid acid catalysts are highly desirable to comply with
the principles of green chemistry. Here, we report a sulfonic acid-functionalized hafnium …

One-pot conversion of biomass-derived xylose and furfural into levulinate esters via acid catalysis

X Hu, S Jiang, L Wu, S Wang, CZ Li - Chemical Communications, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Direct conversion of biomass-derived xylose and furfural into levulinic acid, a platform
molecule, via acid-catalysis has been accomplished for the first time in dimethoxymethane …

Recent advances in heterogeneous catalysts for the synthesis of alkyl levulinate biofuel additives from renewable levulinic acid: A comprehensive review

JN Appaturi, J Andas, YK Ma, BL Phoon… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Alkyl levulinates are one of the most desirable and promising compounds for biofuel
production, since they have been identified as one of the prospective fuel-blending …

Single pot conversion of furfuryl alcohol to levulinic esters and γ-valerolactone in the presence of sulfonic acid functionalized ILs and metal catalysts

AM Hengne, SB Kamble, CV Rode - Green chemistry, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Ionic liquids functionalized with acidic anions, HSO4, ClSO3H, PTSA, TFA (MIm), HSO4 and
TFA (NMP) were found to efficiently (99% conversion) catalyze the alcoholysis of furfuryl …

Recent advances in the value addition of biomass‐derived levulinic acid: A review focusing on its chemical reactivity patterns

S Dutta, NS Bhat - ChemCatChem, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Levulinic acid (LA) is one of the most prominent biomass‐derived chemical building blocks
that can be transformed into specialty chemicals like fuels, solvents, monomers for polymers …

[PDF][PDF] Facile and efficient conversion of furfuryl alcohol into n-butyl levulinate catalyzed by extremely low acid concentration

L Peng, H Li, L Xi, K Chen, H Chen - BioResources, 2014 - bioresources.cnr.ncsu.edu
Alkyl levulinates have been identified as promising chemicals with various industrial
applications. Here, a catalytic process for the synthesis in an n-butanol medium of n-butyl …