Sustainable Routes Toward Amino Acid‐Based Surfactants: Borrowing Hydrogen Catalysis and Beyond
Maximilian Fellert, Ben L. Feringa · 2026
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Maximilian Fellert and Ben Feringa survey greener routes to amino acid-based surfactants. Their 2026 perspective notes that such cleaners pair renewable heads with tunable tails. A bio-based start alone does not prove a product is green, they caution.
Route choice, waste, feedstock source, catalyst, performance, and fate all count. One lead route borrows hydrogen to join alcohols and amines, with water as the sole formal by-product. Other paths use enzymes, engineered fermentation, or ring chemistry from renewable tails. The authors set design criteria for scale-up. Their aim is surfactants that stay kind to skin and to nature at plant scale.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Maximilian Fellert, Ben L. Feringa |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |