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10.1039/c4cc04133j

Author(s)

James Sherwood
Mario De Bruyn
Andri Constantinou
Laurianne Moity
Rob McElroy
Thomas J. Farmer
Tony Duncan
Warwick Raverty
Andrew J. Hunt
James H. Clark

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Publication details

Journal	Chemical Communications
Date	E-pub ahead of print - 1 Jul 2014
Date	Published (current) - 4 Sep 2014
Issue number	68
Volume	50
Number of pages	3
Pages (from-to)	9650-9652
Early online date	1/07/14
Original language	English

Abstract

Dihydrolevoglucosenone (Cyrene) is a bio-based molecule, derived in two simple steps from cellulose, which demonstrates significant promise as a dipolar aprotic solvent. The dipolarity of dihydrolevoglucosenone is similar to NMP, DMF and sulpholane. Dihydrolevoglucosenone demonstrates similar performance to NMP in a fluorination reaction and the Menschutkin reaction. This journal is © the Partner Organisations 2014.

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