Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 23, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules23081891
Keywords
biomass conversion; cyclopentenones; deep eutectic solvents; furfural; green chemistry
Funding
- University of Calabria
- University of Magna Graecia
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The development of novel synthetic routes to produce bioactive compounds starting from renewable sources has become an important research area in organic and medicinal chemistry. Here, we present a low-cost procedure for the tunable and selective conversion of biomass-produced furfural to cyclopentenone derivatives using a mixture of choline chloride and urea as a biorenewable deep eutectic solvent (DES). The proposed medium is a nontoxic, biodegradable, and could be reused up to four times without any unfavorable effect on the reaction yield. The process is tunable, clean, cheap, simple and scalable and meets most of the criteria; therefore, it can be considered as an environmental sustainable process in a natural reaction medium.
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