AUTHOR=Bruniaux Sophie , Varma Rajender S. , Len Christophe 

TITLE=A Novel Strategy for Selective O-Methylation of Glycerol in Subcritical Methanol

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Chemistry

VOLUME=Volume 7 - 2019

YEAR=2019

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/chemistry/articles/10.3389/fchem.2019.00357

DOI=10.3389/fchem.2019.00357

ISSN=2296-2646

ABSTRACT=A new regioselective approach has been elaborated for the selective conversion of bio-based glycerol into the monomethyl derivative using sub/supercritical methanol. The reaction was realized in batch process using three reactive components namely glycerol, methanol and potassium carbonate to produce selectively the 1-O-methylglycerol in mild yields; mechanism of the O-methylation has been delineated using labeled methanol and GC-MS experiments.