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Chemoselective catalytic conversion of glycerol as a biorenewable source to valuable commodity chemicals

Chun-Hui (Clayton) Zhou,*ab   Jorge N. Beltramini,b   Yong-Xian Fana  and  G. Q. (Max) Lu*b  

* Corresponding authors

a Advanced Materials & Catalytic Conversions for Renewable Feedstocks Research Group, School of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R. China
E-mail: catalysis8@yahoo.com.cn

b ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, The Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology and School of Engineering, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
E-mail: maxlu@uq.edu.au, jorgeb@uq.edu.au

Abstract

New opportunities for the conversion of glycerol into value-added chemicals have emerged in recent years as a result of glycerol's unique structure, properties, bioavailability, and renewability. Glycerol is currently produced in large amounts during the transesterification of fatty acids into biodiesel and as such represents a useful by-product. This paper provides a comprehensive review and critical analysis on the different reaction pathways for catalytic conversion of glycerol into commodity chemicals, including selective oxidation, selective hydrogenolysis, selective dehydration, pyrolysis and gasification, steam reforming, thermal reduction into syngas, selective transesterification, selective etherification, oligomerization and polymerization, and conversion of glycerol into glycerol carbonate.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B707343G
Article type
Critical Review
Submitted
08 Oct 2007
First published
22 Nov 2007

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2008,37, 527-549

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