Maximising opportunities in supercritical chemistry: the continuous conversion of levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone in CO2
- 16 October 2007
- journal article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 44,p. 4632-4634
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b708754c
Abstract
Phase behaviour is manipulated during the hydrogenation of aqueous levulinic acid in supercritical CO2 to separate almost pure γ-valerolactone from water and unreacted acid with reduced energy requirements compared to conventional processing.Keywords
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