Issue 8, 2016
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Green Chemistry

Oxidative conversion of glucose to gluconic acid by iron(iii) chloride in water under mild conditions†

Hongdan Zhang,abc   Ning Li,b   Xuejun Pan,*b   Shubin Wu*c  and  Jun Xiea  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute of New Energy and New Material, Key Laboratory of Energy Plants Resource and Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Biomass Energy of Guangdong Regular Higher Education Institutions, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, P.R. China

b Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 460 Henry Mall, Madison, WI 53706, USA
E-mail: xpan@wisc.edu
Tel: +1 (608) 262-4951

c State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, P.R. China
E-mail: shubinwu@scut.edu.cn
Tel: +86 (020)22236808

Abstract

A simple method was demonstrated to oxidize glucose into gluconic acid in a concentrated FeCl3 solution. The maximum gluconic acid yield (52.3%) was achieved in the 40% FeCl3 solution at 110 °C in 4 hours. Formic and acetic acids were the main coproducts with an yield of 10–20%.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5GC02614H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
30 Oct 2015
Accepted
15 Jan 2016
First published
15 Jan 2016

Green Chem., 2016,18, 2308-2312

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Oxidative conversion of glucose to gluconic acid by iron(III) chloride in water under mild conditions

H. Zhang, N. Li, X. Pan, S. Wu and J. Xie, Green Chem., 2016, 18, 2308 DOI: 10.1039/C5GC02614H

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