Sanchez-Vazquez, SA;
Sheppard, TD;
Evans, JRG;
Hailes, HC;
(2014)
The selective conversion of D-limonene to p,alpha-dimethylstyrene.
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10.1039/c4ra11558a.
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Abstract
Reaction conditions to facilitate the conversion of D-limonene selectively to p,α-dimethylstyrene (DMS) are described, in order to subsequently produce polymeric materials from biomass sourced from food waste. Limonene was dehydrogenated with several palladium catalysts and different solvents and bases, with copper chloride as oxidant at temperatures of 70–120 °C. Reaction conditions were identified using Pd(OAc)2 for the selective formation of only DMS from limonene in 2–5 hours, enabling the facile separation of DMS from unreacted starting material by vacuum distillation.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The selective conversion of D-limonene to p,alpha-dimethylstyrene |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c4ra11558a |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4ra11558a |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1457996 |
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