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      From glycerol to value-added products.

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          Today, industrial plants that produce glycerol are closing down and others are opening that use glycerol as a raw material, owing to the large surplus of glycerol formed as a by-product during the production of biodiesel. Research efforts to find new applications of glycerol as a low-cost feedstock for functional derivatives have led to the introduction of a number of selective processes for converting glycerol into commercially valued products. This Minireview describes a selection of such achievements and shows how glycerol will be a central raw material in future chemical industries.

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          Journal
          Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl.
          Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
          1433-7851
          1433-7851
          2007
          : 46
          : 24
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Institute for Scientific Methodology, CNR via Ugo La Malfa 153, 90146 Palermo, Italy. mario.pagliaro@ismn.cnr.it
          Article
          10.1002/anie.200604694
          17471485
          1e707136-e654-4dab-9647-065814dc11fa
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