Aaron Socha and Jason Sello at Brown University, USA, describe an efficient method to convert both virgin and waste vegetable oils into biodiesel in a single reaction vessel by using scandium and bismuth triflates as catalysts.
Some of the advantages of this new environmentally friendly method are:
- The lack of corrosive chemicals
- The high efficiency: conversion in 6 times faster
- The simplicity: one step reaction in one vessel
- The use of environmentally friendly and recoverable catalysts
Not surprisingly, this paper has been highlighted in many different outlets. These are just some of them:
- Science Magazine: http://www.sciencemagnews.com/chemists-simplify-biodiesel-conversion.html
- R&D Magazine: http://www.rdmag.com/News/Feeds/2010/10/manufacturing-brown-university-chemists-simplify-biodiesel-conve/
- Laboratory Equipment: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/News-chemists-streamline-biodiesel-conversion-100810.aspx?xmlmenuid=51
- NetIndia123: http://www.netindia123.com/showdetails.asp?id=1604567&cat=India&head=Conversion+of+waste+vegetable+oil+into+biodiesel+simplified
- Green Car Congress: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2010/10/brown-20101008.html
- Insider.com: http://www.examiner.com/moreover/organic-chemistry
- Brown University: http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2010/10/biodiesel
- The Brown Daily Herald: https://blogs.rsc.org/ob/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=333
- Go Green Save the Earth: http://www.public88.com/gogreen/alternative-energy/biodiesel-chemists-improve-synthesis-of-biodiesel/
You can now read this article for free until the 4th November:
Efficient conversion of triacylglycerols and fatty acids to biodiesel in a microwave reactor using metal triflate catalysts
Aaron M. Socha and Jason K. Sello
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, 8, 4753-4756
DOI: 10.1039/C0OB00014K, Paper
From the Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry editorial office we wanted to congratulate the authors of this paper and encourage them to carry on developing their meaningful research.
