Issue 26, 2009
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Chemical Communications

A new route for the synthesis of propylene oxide from bio-glycerol derivated propylene glycol

Zhengxi Yu,ab   Lei Xu,a   Yingxu Wei,a   Yingli Wang,ab   Yanli He,a   Qinghua Xia,ac   Xinzhi Zhangad  and  Zhongmin Liu*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, P.R. China
E-mail: liuzm@dicp.ac.cn
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b Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P.R. China

c Ministry-of-Education Key Laboratory for the synthesis and Application of Organic Functional Molecules, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, P.R. China

d China National Petroleum Corporation, Beijing 100007, P.R. China

Abstract

The synthesis of propylene oxide from propylene glycol, a derivative of bio-glycerol, was firstly realized in the presence of alkali-loaded silica catalysts to achieve 44% conversion and 70% selectivity.

Graphical abstract: A new route for the synthesis of propylene oxide from bio-glycerol derivated propylene glycol

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B907530E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
15 Apr 2009
Accepted
05 May 2009
First published
27 May 2009

Chem. Commun., 2009, 3934-3936

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A new route for the synthesis of propylene oxide from bio-glycerol derivated propylene glycol

Z. Yu, L. Xu, Y. Wei, Y. Wang, Y. He, Q. Xia, X. Zhang and Z. Liu, Chem. Commun., 2009, 3934 DOI: 10.1039/B907530E

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