Ecotoxicity studies of the levulinate ester series

L Lomba, S Muñiz, MR Pino, E Navarro, B Giner - Ecotoxicology, 2014 - Springer
… this study, we evaluated the acute ecotoxicity of four levulinates (levulinic acid, methyl levulinate,
ethyl levulinate and butyl levulinate… As a general trend, the toxicity of levulinate esters in …

Evaluating the toxicity of biomass derived platform chemicals

SPM Ventura, P de Morais, JAS Coelho, T Sintra… - Green chemistry, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
… (15) and ethyl levulinate (16) used in this study with potential … , ether and ester) groups of
each compound on its toxicity. However… of these compounds to show a higher toxicity level than …

Life cycle assessment of energy consumption and environmental emissions for cornstalk-based ethyl levulinate

Z Wang, Z Li, T Lei, M Yang, T Qi, L Lin, X Xin… - Applied energy, 2016 - Elsevier
… Ethyl levulinate (EL) is a levulinate ester with an oxygen … This will help show the CO 2
sources and sinks along the … environmental impacts such as human toxicity, water footprint and …

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…

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, …

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

Exploring the usefulness of key green physicochemical properties: Quantitative structure–activity relationship for solvents from biomass

E Zuriaga, B Giner, MP Ribate… - Environmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
ecotoxicity information, levulinate esters were studied in 3 … Acute effective concentrations of
the levulinate esters recompiled for … For this family, the ecotoxicity of these series is correlated …

Readily biodegradable and low-toxic biocompatible ionic liquids for cellulose processing

M Markiewicz, J Maszkowska, V Nardello-Rataj… - RSC …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
… acid was show to have low toxicity with … levulinate anion shows low toxicity in all the
three test systems employed in this work. The aquatic toxicity of other ILs varies from low for [Bet-ester

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, …