Smith, Benjamin and Li, Li and Perera-Solis, Diego and Gildea, Louise and Zholobenko, Vladimir and Dyer, Philip and Greenwell, H. Christopher (2018) 'Ketone formation via decarboxylation reactions of fatty acids using solid hydroxide/oxide catalysts.', Inorganics., 6 (4). p. 121.
Abstract
A sustainable route to ketones is described where stearone is produced via ketonic decarboxylation of stearic acid mediated by solid base catalysts in yields of up to 97%, at 250 °C. A range of Mg/Al layered double hydroxide (LDH) and mixed metal oxide (MMO) solid base catalysts were prepared with Mg/Al ratios of between 2 and 6 via two synthetic routes, co-precipitation and co-hydration, with each material tested for their catalytic performance. For a given Mg/Al ratio, the LDH and MMO materials showed similar reactivity, with no correlation to the method of preparation. The presence of co-produced oxide phases in the co-hydration catalysts had negligible impact on reactivity.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution. Download PDF (2940Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.3390/inorganics6040121 |
| Publisher statement: | © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Date accepted: | 19 October 2018 |
| Date deposited: | 23 November 2018 |
| Date of first online publication: | 08 November 2018 |
| Date first made open access: | 23 November 2018 |
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