Issue 2, 2013
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Green Chemistry

Glycerol carbonate as a versatile building block for tomorrow: synthesis, reactivity, properties and applications

Matthieu O. Sonnati,ab   Sonia Amigoni,a   Elisabeth P. Taffin de Givenchy,a   Thierry Darmanin,a   Olivier Chouletb  and  Frédéric Guittard*a  

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a Université de Nice – Sophia Antipolis, Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, UMR 7336, Groupe Equipe Surfaces et Interfaces, Parc Valrose, 06108 Nice Cedex 2, France
E-mail: guittard@unice.fr
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b Ecoat S.A.S., InnovaGrasse, Espace Jacques-Louis Lions, 4 Traverse Dupont, 06130 Grasse, France
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Abstract

The synthesis, reactivity and applications of glycerol carbonate (glycerine carbonate or 4-hydroxymethyl-2-oxo-1,3-dioxolane) are discussed and reviewed. Supported by the increasing sustainable awareness, glycerol carbonate has gained much interest over the last 20 years because of its versatile reactivity and as a way to valorize waste glycerol. Numerous synthesis pathways for this molecule were identified, some of them very promising and on the verge of being applied at an industrial scale. The wide reactivity of this molecule due to the presence of both a hydroxyl group and a 2-oxo-1,3-dioxolane group has been studied and has initiated some emerging applications in various domains from solvents to polymers.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2GC36525A
Article type
Critical Review
Submitted
26 Sep 2012
Accepted
30 Nov 2012
First published
30 Nov 2012

Green Chem., 2013,15, 283-306

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Glycerol carbonate as a versatile building block for tomorrow: synthesis, reactivity, properties and applications

M. O. Sonnati, S. Amigoni, E. P. Taffin de Givenchy, T. Darmanin, O. Choulet and F. Guittard, Green Chem., 2013, 15, 283 DOI: 10.1039/C2GC36525A

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