Selective oxidation of glycerol to glyceric acid using a gold catalyst in aqueous sodium hydroxide
Silvio Carrettin,Paul McMorn,Peter Johnston,Ken Griffin,Graham J. Hutchings
Chemical Communications Pub Date : 03/05/2002 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/B201112N
Abstract
Glycerol is oxidised to glyceric acid with 100% selectivity using either 1% Au/charcoal or 1% Au/graphitecatalyst under mild reaction conditions (60 °C, 3 h, water as solvent).
