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A sustainable process for the production of γ-valerolactone by hydrogenation of biomass-derived levulinic acid
Abstract
A sustainable process for the hydrogenation of levulinic acid (LA) to γ-valerolactone (GVL) is reported. GVL can be easily obtained in high yield, adopting very mild reaction conditions, by the hydrogenation of an aqueous solution of levulinic acid using a commercial ruthenium supported catalyst in combination with a heterogeneous acid co-catalyst, such as the ion exchange resins Amberlyst A70 or A15, niobium phosphate, or oxide. All the hydrogenations were carried out at 70–50 °C and at low hydrogen pressure (3–0.5 MPa). The most effective acid co-catalyst was the ion exchange resin Amberlyst A70, which produced a high yield of GVL (99 mol%) and an activity of 558 h−1 after 3 h of reaction, whilst working at 0.5 MPa of hydrogen and 70 °C. The combined effect of acid and hydrogenating heterogeneous components was also verified for the hydrogenation of aliphatic ketones to the corresponding alcohols, thus opening a new perspective for this process.
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- Authors
- Galletti, A. M. R., Antonetti, C., De Luise, V., & Martinelli, M.
- Venue
- Green Chemistry
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- Published
- 2012
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 688
- ISSN
- 1463-9262 (ISSN-L)
- 1463-9270
- OpenAlex
- W2063640734
- Cited by
- 327
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 17.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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