An improved catalytic system for the reduction of levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone?

Catalysis Science & Technology Pub Date: 2014-07-04 DOI: 10.1039/C4CY00719K

Abstract

An improved bidentate phosphine-modified recyclable catalytic system was developed for the selective conversion of biomass-derived levulinic acid into γ-valerolactone with a TOF of 21?233 h?1 in solvent-, chlorine- and additive-free reaction environments.

Graphical abstract: An improved catalytic system for the reduction of levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone
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