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Effect of KOH Pretreatment on Lignocellulosic Waste for the Reduction of Nitrobenzene to Aniline without Metal

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Centre de Recherches de Royallieu, Sorbonne Universités, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, CS 60319, CEDEX, F-60203 Compiègne, France
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Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Organique et Minérale, 1 allée du Réseau Jean-Marie Buckmaster, CEDEX, F-60200 Compiègne, France
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Institute for Chemistry in Life and Health Sciences, PSL Research University, Chimie ParisTech, CNRS, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, CEDEX 05, F-75231 Paris, France
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Sustainability 2020, 12(11), 4665; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114665
Received: 21 April 2020 / Revised: 28 May 2020 / Accepted: 5 June 2020 / Published: 8 June 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Energy and Biorefineries from Biowastes)
A green reduction of nitrobenzene to aniline was carried out using lignocellulosic biomass as a hydrogen source in a subcritical polar protic solvent, such as water and alcohol. The method is simple to implement, inexpensive, and easily applicable on a larger scale. The present method does not demand elaborated experimental conditions nor any metal catalyst. Optimal conditions provided aniline with a 90% yield by reduction of nitrobenzene in the presence of sawdust impregnated by KOH in subcritical methanol at 240 °C for 6 h. View Full-Text
Keywords: reduction; green chemistry; subcritical solvent; sawdust; biomass waste reduction; green chemistry; subcritical solvent; sawdust; biomass waste
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Tadrent, S.; Khelfa, A.; Len, C. Effect of KOH Pretreatment on Lignocellulosic Waste for the Reduction of Nitrobenzene to Aniline without Metal. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4665. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114665

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Tadrent S, Khelfa A, Len C. Effect of KOH Pretreatment on Lignocellulosic Waste for the Reduction of Nitrobenzene to Aniline without Metal. Sustainability. 2020; 12(11):4665. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114665

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Tadrent, Sarra, Anissa Khelfa, and Christophe Len. 2020. "Effect of KOH Pretreatment on Lignocellulosic Waste for the Reduction of Nitrobenzene to Aniline without Metal" Sustainability 12, no. 11: 4665. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12114665

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