Glycerol as a Green Solvent in Organic Reactions
Navneet Kumar, Vimal Chandra Srivastava
Glycerol has recently emerged as a promising green solvent over conventional organic solvents including water owing to its favorable physicochemical properties for various applications. This chapter compiles and compares various common methods used for the synthesis of glycerol via various routes. A brief literature review of organic reactions which employ glycerol as a green solvent has been presented. Organic transformations in glycerol medium occur with or without any catalytic material. Glycerol has also been used as a hydrogen donor to perform hydrogenation reaction of organic compounds. Glycerol derivatives have been used as a green solvent for performing Suzuki cross-coupling, nucleophilic substitution, and asymmetric reduction reactions. Other than organic transformations, the applicability of glycerol in nanoparticles synthesis has also been discussed to elaborate its importance as a green solvent. The superiority of glycerol over other solvents has been explained in terms of its solubility, non-toxicity, availability and chemical reactivity.
Keywords
Glycerol, Organic Reactions, Green Solvent, Catalyst, Hydrogenation
Published online 8/20/2019, 22 pages
Citation: Navneet Kumar, Vimal Chandra Srivastava, Glycerol as a Green Solvent in Organic Reactions, Materials Research Foundations, Vol. 54, pp 202-223, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644900314-9
Part of the book on Industrial Applications of Green Solvents
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