Journal
CHEMSUSCHEM
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 439-468Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201902500
Keywords
biomass; biopolymers; green chemistry; organocatalysis; renewable resources
Funding
- Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR)
- European Union - European Regional Development Fund (FESR) - European Social Fund (FSE) - National Operational Programme (PON) on Research and Innovation 2014-2020
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One of the greatest challenges facing our society is to reconcile our need to develop efficient and sophisticated chemical processes with the limited resources of our planet and its restricted ability to adsorb pollution. Organocatalysis has allowed many issues to be addressed in the development of sophisticated, but less polluting, processes. However, minimizing waste also means an efficient utilization of raw and renewable materials. Waste biomass represents an alternative to conventional petroleum-based chemical manufacturing and is a highly attractive renewable resource for the production of chemicals and high-value-added organocatalysts. Recent achievements in the use of renewable biomass feedstocks for the synthesis of organocatalysts are presented. Their application in synthetic methodologies, including multicomponent reactions, which are performed under solvent-free conditions or in eco-friendly reaction media, as well as recycling and reusing the organocatalysts, is illustrated. A few pioneering examples that demonstrate the potential of these promoters in asymmetric synthesis have also been documented. In particular, this review covers examples on the use of hetero- and homogeneous organocatalysts derived from 1) waste biopolymers, such as chitosan, alginic acid, and cellulose; ii) renewable platform molecules, such as levoglucosenone, isosorbide, mannose, d-glucosamine, and lecithin; 3) terpenes and rosin, such as pinane, isosteviol, and abietic acid; and iv) natural proteins (gelatin, bovine tendons, silk fibroin proteins).
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