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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
卷 6, 期 5, 页码 1415-1442出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3ee00069a
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- FWO Vlaanderen [1.1.955.10N]
- Research Council of the K.U. Leuven [IDO - 3E090504]
- Flemish government (Methusalem)
Upcoming bio-refineries will be at the heart of the manufacture of future transportation fuels, chemicals and materials. A narrow number of platform molecules are envisioned to bridge nature's abundant polysaccharide feedstock to the production of added-value chemicals and intermediate building blocks. Such platform molecules are well-chosen to lie at the base of a large product assortment, while their formation should be straightforward from the refined biomass, practical and energy efficient, without unnecessary loss of carbon atoms. Lactic acid has been identified as one such high potential platform. Despite its established fermentation route, sustainability issues - like gypsum waste and cost factors due to multi-step purification and separation requirements - will arise as soon as the necessary orders of magnitude larger volumes are needed. Innovative production routes to lactic acid and its esters are therefore under development, converting sugars and glycerol in the presence of chemocatalysts. Moreover, catalysis is one of the fundamental routes to convert lactic acid into a range of useful chemicals in a platform approach. This contribution attempts a critical overview of all advances in the field of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis and recognises a great potential of some of these chemocatalytic approaches to produce and transform lactic acid as well as some other promising alpha-hydroxy acids.
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