Polymers without petrochemicals: sustainable routes to conventional monomers

G Hayes, M Laurel, D MacKinnon, T Zhao… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Access to a wide range of plastic materials has been rationalized by the increased demand
from growing populations and the development of high-throughput production systems …

Advances in catalytic routes for the production of carboxylic acids from biomass: a step forward for sustainable polymers

J Iglesias, I Martínez-Salazar… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymers are ubiquitously present in our daily life because they can meet a wide range of
needs and fields of applications. This success, based on an irresponsible linear …

Sustainable value-added C3 chemicals from glycerol transformations: A mini review for heterogeneous catalytic processes

Y Wang, Y Xiao, G Xiao - Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
It is of importance to convert glycerol, the primary by-product from biodiesel manufacturing,
to various valuable C 3 chemicals, such as acrolein via dehydration, lactic acid, 1, 3 …

[HTML][HTML] Biobased acrylic acid production in a sugarcane biorefinery: A techno-economic assessment using lactic acid, 3-hydroxypropionic acid and glycerol as …

MS Brobbey, J Louw, JF Görgens - Chemical Engineering Research and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Acrylic acid (AA) is a versatile platform chemical of immense global demand. Today, the
biorefinery is among the most promising initiatives of sustainably producing this commodity …

Advances in catalytic production processes of biomass-derived vinyl monomers

K Avasthi, A Bohre, M Grilc, B Likozar… - Catalysis Science & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Plastic industries currently source the majority of monomers from crude oil substances.
Although we have witnessed a significant interest of companies in the utilization of …

A review on bi/multifunctional catalytic oxydehydration of bioglycerol to acrylic acid: Catalyst type, kinetics, and reaction mechanism

A Abdullah, AZ Abdullah, M Ahmed… - … Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Acrylic acid, conventionally produced via propylene (non‐renewable fossil fuel route), is an
industrially important chemical. The bio‐based feedstock process employing glycerol (a by …

A Novel Biosynthetic Pathway for the Production of Acrylic Acid through β-Alanine Route in Escherichia coli

YS Ko, JW Kim, TU Chae, CW Song… - ACS Synthetic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Acrylic acid (AA) is an important industrial chemical used for several applications including
superabsorbent polymers and acrylate esters. Here, we report the development of a new …

Discovery of a novel acrylic acid formation pathway in Gluconobacter oxydans and its application in biosynthesis of acrylic acid from glycerol

L Zhao, J Zhu, KS Ro, J Xie, D Wei - Process Biochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
This study revealed a novel metabolic pathway of acrylic acid in Gluconobacter oxydans.
First, the intermediate metabolite acrolein was confirmed by HPLC and GC-MS analyses …

Catalytic conversion of glucose and its biopolymers into renewable compounds by inducing C–C bond scission and formation

HN Anchan, NS Bhat, N Vinod, PS Prabhakar… - Biomass Conversion …, 2024 - Springer
Transportation fuels and chemicals can be produced renewably by selectively altering the
carbon skeleton of biomass-derived glucose. The predominantly catalytic processes …

Silica gel supported Cu nanoparticles for selective reductive etherification of furfural into isopropyl furfuryl ether

R Wang, M Zhang, Q Wang, W Zhang, H Wang… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Furfural (FF) is one of the important platform molecules of biomass, which can be obtained
by hydrolysis from lignocellulose and can produce many high value-added chemicals. In this …