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Nonstoichiometric calcium pyrophosphate: a highly efficient and selective catalyst for dehydration of lactic acid to acrylic acid

Vidhya C. Ghantani, Mohan K. Dongare, Shubhangi B. Umbarkar

RSC Advances · 2014 · 67 citations · 41 references

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Lactic acid dehydration using a non-stoichiometric calcium pyrophosphate catalyst (Ca/P ratio 0.78) has resulted in 78% acrylic acid yield due to formation of calcium lactate as an intermediate on the catalyst surface.

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