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Efficient Conversion of Biomass Derived Levulinic Acid to γ-Valerolactone Using Hydrosilylation

Garg, Nitish K. LU ; Schmalz, Veronika ; Johnson, Magnus T. LU and Wendt, Ola F. LU (2021) In European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2021(37). p.5243-5247
Abstract

Converting biomass into value-added chemicals is of significant interest and we report an efficient hydrosilylation to convert levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone using cost-effective silanes such as PMHS and TMDS with B(C6F5)3 as catalyst. This metal free methodology works at room temperature reaching TONs and TOFs up to 16000 and 2000 h−1. Insights into the reaction mechanism are reported.

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Biomass, GVL, Hydrosilylation, Levulinic acid, Tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane
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European Journal of Organic Chemistry
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2021
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37
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5 pages
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Wiley-VCH Verlag
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  • scopus:85117100146
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1434-193X
DOI
10.1002/ejoc.202100982
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English
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Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Authors. European Journal of Organic Chemistry published by Wiley-VCH GmbH
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  series       = {{European Journal of Organic Chemistry}},
  title        = {{Efficient Conversion of Biomass Derived Levulinic Acid to γ-Valerolactone Using Hydrosilylation}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202100982}},
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