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Efficient, Chemical‐Catalytic Approach to the Production of 3‐Hydroxypropanoic Acid by Oxidation of Biomass‐Derived Levulinic Acid With Hydrogen Peroxide
Author(s) -
Wu Linglin,
Dutta Saikat,
Mascal Mark
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemsuschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.412
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1864-564X
pISSN - 1864-5631
DOI - 10.1002/cssc.201500025
Subject(s) - levulinic acid , propanoic acid , hydrogen peroxide , catalysis , chemistry , succinic acid , biomass (ecology) , yield (engineering) , selectivity , organic chemistry , hydrogen , acrylic acid , materials science , polymer , oceanography , monomer , metallurgy , geology
3‐Hydroxypropanoic acid (HPA), a precursor to acrylic acid, can be produced in high yield by oxidation of the biomass‐derived platform chemical levulinic acid. While treatment of levulinic acid with H 2 O 2 under acidic conditions gives predominantly succinic acid, a remarkable reversal of selectivity is observed under basic conditions, leading either directly to HPA or, under modified conditions, initially to 3‐(hydroperoxy)propanoic acid, which can be quantitatively hydrogenated to HPA.