1.
Science
; 328(5978): 602-5, 2010 Apr 30.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-20431010
RESUMO
Presently, very few compounds of commercial interest are directly accessible from carbohydrates by using nonfermentive approaches. We describe here a catalytic process for the direct formation of methyl lactate from common sugars. Lewis acidic zeotypes, such as Sn-Beta, catalyze the conversion of mono- and disaccharides that are dissolved in methanol to methyl lactate at 160 degrees C. With sucrose as the substrate, methyl lactate yield reaches 68%, and the heterogeneous catalyst can be easily recovered by filtration and reused multiple times after calcination without any substantial change in the product selectivity.
2.
ChemSusChem
; 2(7): 625-7, 2009 Jul 20.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-19562790