Volume 152, 2011
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Faraday Discussions

Enhanced performance of the catalytic conversion of allyl alcohol to 3-hydroxypropionic acid using bimetallic gold catalysts

Ermelinda Falletta,a   Cristina Della Pina,*a   Michele Rossi,a   Qian He,b   Christopher J. Kielyb  and  Graham J. Hutchingsc  

* Corresponding authors

a Dipartimento di Chimica Inorganica, Metallorganica e Analitica “L. Malatesta”, Università degli Studi di Milano, CNR-ISTM, via Venezian, 21, Milano, Italy
E-mail: cristina.dellapina@unimi.it
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b Department of Material Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, USA

c Cardiff Catalysis Institute, School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, UK

Abstract

One of the strategic building blocks in organic synthesis is 3-hydroxypropionic acid, which is particularly important for the manufacture of high performance polymers. However, to date, despite many attempts using both biological and chemical routes, no large scale effective process for manufacturing 3-hydroxypropionic acid has been developed. One potentially useful starting point is from allyl alcohol, as this can be obtained in principle from the dehydration of glycerol, thereby presenting a bio-renewable green pathway to this important building block. The catalytic transformation of allyl alcohol to 3-hydroxypropionic acid presents interesting challenges in catalyst design, particularly with respect to the control of selectivity among the products that can be expected, as acrylic acid, acrolein and glyceric acid can also be formed. In this paper, we present a novel eco-sustainable catalytic pathway leading to 3-hydroxypropionic acid, which highlights the outstanding potential of gold-based and bimetallic catalysts in the aerobic oxidation of allyl alcohol.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1FD00063B
Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 Apr 2011
Accepted
06 May 2011
First published
03 Aug 2011

Faraday Discuss., 2011,152, 367-379

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Enhanced performance of the catalytic conversion of allyl alcohol to 3-hydroxypropionic acid using bimetallic gold catalysts

E. Falletta, C. Della Pina, M. Rossi, Q. He, C. J. Kiely and G. J. Hutchings, Faraday Discuss., 2011, 152, 367 DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00063B

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