Efficient, metal-free production of succinic acid by oxidation of biomass-derived levulinic acid with hydrogen peroxide

Saikat Dutta; Linglin Wu; Mark Mascal

doi:10.1039/c5gc00098j

Efficient, metal-free production of succinic acid by oxidation of biomass-derived levulinic acid with hydrogen peroxide

Saikat Dutta, Linglin Wu, Mark Mascal

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Abstract

A practical, scalable, metal-free synthesis of succinic acid from the biomass-derived platform chemical levulinic acid is described. Treatment of levulinic acid with the inexpensive, simple oxidant hydrogen peroxide under the catalytic action of trifluoroacetic acid gives succinic acid in high yield and enables facile product isolation by simple distillation of the volatile catalyst and byproducts.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2335-2338
Number of pages	4
Journal	Green Chemistry
Volume	17
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c5gc00098j
Publication status	Published - Apr 1 2015

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Dutta, S., Wu, L., & Mascal, M. (2015). Efficient, metal-free production of succinic acid by oxidation of biomass-derived levulinic acid with hydrogen peroxide. Green Chemistry, 17(4), 2335-2338. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5gc00098j

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