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Homogeneously-acid catalyzed oligomerization of glycerol

Nassim Sayoud, Karine De Oliveira Vigier, Tatiana Cucu, Bruno De Meulenaer, Zhaoyu Fan, Jonathan Lai, Jean‐Marc Clacens, Armin Liebens, François Jérôme

Green Chemistry · 2015 · 28 citations · 42 references

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Abstract

Here, we report the oligomerization of glycerol in the presence of various Brønsted and Lewis acid catalysts. Under optimized conditions, oligoglycerols with an average degree of oligomerization of 3.4 were selectively obtained at 80% conversion of glycerol.

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