Issue 7, 2010

Glycerol as a sustainable solvent for green chemistry

Abstract

Glycerol, an organic waste generated by the biodiesel industry, has been recently proposed as a valuable green solvent. This review summarizes the advantages, disadvantages and potential uses of glycerol as a green solvent for catalysis, organic synthesis, separations and materials chemistry. In particular, through selected examples we show here that glycerol may combine the advantages of water (low toxicity, low price, large availability, renewability) and ionic liquids (high boiling point, low vapour pressure, low solubility in scCO2). More generally, all these reported works contribute to increase the portfolio of available green solvents and afford innovative solutions to the substitution of the conventionally used volatile organic solvents.

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Article information

Article type
Critical Review
Submitted
25 Jan 2010
Accepted
07 Apr 2010
First published
11 Jun 2010

Green Chem., 2010,12, 1127-1138

Glycerol as a sustainable solvent for green chemistry

Y. Gu and F. Jérôme, Green Chem., 2010, 12, 1127 DOI: 10.1039/C001628D

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