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Inside Back Cover: From Biomass‐Derived Furans to Aromatics with Ethanol over Zeolite (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 42/2016)
Author(s) -
Teixeira Ivo F.,
Lo Benedict T. W.,
Kostetskyy Pavlo,
Stamatakis Michail,
Ye Lin,
Tang Chiu C.,
Mpourmpakis Giannis,
Tsang Shik Chi Edman
Publication year - 2016
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.201607477
Subject(s) - zeolite , chemistry , ethylene , biomass (ecology) , ethanol , cycloaddition , organic chemistry , dehydration , catalysis , ethylene glycol , biochemistry , oceanography , geology
Liquid lunch anyone? Ethylene produced in situ from ethanol dehydration over zeolite is used for the catalytic conversion of biomass‐derived furans into aromatic compounds by Diels–Alder cycloaddition. In their Communication on page 13061 ff., G. Mpourmpakis, S. C. E. Tsang et al. describe a rapid and renewable one‐pot synthesis of aromatic compounds using liquid ethanol as a source of dienophile instead of pressurized ethylene gas.