Electrochemical synthesis of adiponitrile from the renewable raw material glutamic acid.

Jian-Jun Dai, Yao-Bing Huang, Chi Fang, Qing-Xiang Guo, Yao Fu

Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Biomass Clean Energy, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, PR China.

ChemSusChem 2012 Apr

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Current affairs: Adiponitrile, used to produce nylon 6.6, is prepared from the renewable compound glutamic acid by an electrochemical route, involving electro-oxidative decarboxylation and Kolbe coupling reactions. The new route is an example of the use of glutamic acid as a versatile substrate in the transformation of biomass into chemicals. Also, it highlights the use of electrochemical methods in biomass conversion. Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

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Jian-Jun Dai, Yao-Bing Huang, Chi Fang, Qing-Xiang Guo, Yao Fu. Electrochemical synthesis of adiponitrile from the renewable raw material glutamic acid. ChemSusChem. 2012 Apr;5(4):617-20