Sugar Acetates as Novel, Renewable CO₂-philes

Abstract

Acetylation of carbohydrates is proposed as a method for the synthesis of inexpensive CO2-philes that can easily be modified for a wide variety of green chemistry applications in liquid and supercritical CO2. The deliquescence of peracetylated sugars in contact with CO2 is reported in this communication as well as the unparalleled solubility of these compounds in supercritical CO2.