Supercritical CO2 dried chitosan: an efficient intrinsic heterogeneous catalyst in fine chemistry

Romain Valentin; Karine Molvinger; Françoise Quignard; Daniel Brunel

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Supercritical CO₂ dried chitosan: an efficient intrinsic heterogeneous catalyst in fine chemistry

Romain Valentin,^a Karine Molvinger,^a Françoise Quignard*^a and Daniel Brunel^a

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^a Laboratoire des Matériaux Catalytiques et Catalyse en Chimie Organique (CNRS UMR 5618), ENSCM, 8 rue de l'Ecole Normale, Montpellier cedex 5, France
E-mail: quignard@cit.enscm.fr

Abstract

Chitosan microspheres are used as catalysts for the synthesis of monoglyceride by fatty acid addition to glycidol. Microspheres are obtained by drying gel beads of the natural polymer under supercritical CO₂ conditions, which makes the access to the polymer functional groups easy.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/B310109F
Article type: Letter
Submitted: 21 Aug 2003
Accepted: 01 Oct 2003
First published: 05 Nov 2003

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New J. Chem., 2003,27, 1690-1692

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R. Valentin, K. Molvinger, F. Quignard and D. Brunel, New J. Chem., 2003, 27, 1690 DOI: 10.1039/B310109F

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