Preparation of levulinic acid and 5-(chloromethyl)furfural directly from terrestrial and marine biomass in a batch reactor under conventional and microwave heating
Diona Avitha Aranha, Abhishek Kumar Yadav, Balamurugan Ayyakkalai, Vijayalekshmi Vijayakumar, Fillip Kumar Sarkar, Hemanth Giri Rao Vantharam Venkata, Sri Sailaja Nori, Saikat Dutta · 2026
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Diona Avitha Aranha and co-authors prepare levulinic acid and a furfural derivative directly from land and marine biomass in a batch reactor. Their 2026 paper deals with turning waste feedstocks into platform chemicals.
Lignocellulosic waste and seaweed are second- and third-generation resources for fuels and chemicals. The team used selected plant wastes and dried flakes of a seaweed species. One product formed in a two-phase acid system, the other in aqueous acid alone. Both syntheses were run under conventional heating and under microwave irradiation. Reaction conditions and their effects were compared. Direct routes from raw biomass skip costly pretreatment steps, which is the point.
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| CREATOR | Diona Avitha Aranha, Abhishek Kumar Yadav, Balamurugan Ayyakkalai, Vijayalekshmi Vijayakumar, Fillip Kumar Sarkar, Hemanth Giri Rao Vantharam Venkata, Sri Sailaja Nori, Saikat Dutta |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |