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Inside Back Cover: Towards Quantitative Conversion of Microalgae Oil to Diesel‐Range Alkanes with Bifunctional Catalysts (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 9/2012)
Author(s) -
Peng Baoxiang,
Yao Yuan,
Zhao Chen,
Lercher Johannes A.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201108371
Subject(s) - bifunctional , biodiesel , chemistry , diesel fuel , vegetable oil refining , hydrocarbon , catalysis , organic chemistry , algae , cascade , chemical engineering , chromatography , botany , engineering , biology
Hydrocarbon biodiesel can be quantitatively achieved on Ni/HBeta zeolite from crude algae oil in batch or continuous‐flow reactors. In their Communication on page 2072 ff., J. Lercher et al. describe the kinetics, reaction pathways, and fundamental chemistry of the elementary steps of the cascade hydrogenation reaction on algae oil. This approach opens new possibilities to produce sulfur‐free high‐grade green transportation fuels from microalgae on a large scale.