One-pot synthesis of isosorbide from cellulose or lignocellulosic biomass: a challenge?

Isaline Bonnin; Raphaël Mereau; Thierry Tassaing; Karine De Oliveira Vigier

doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.143

One-pot synthesis of isosorbide from cellulose or lignocellulosic biomass: a challenge?

Beilstein J Org Chem. 2020 Jul 16:16:1713-1721. doi: 10.3762/bjoc.16.143. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Isaline Bonnin^{1

2}, Raphaël Mereau², Thierry Tassaing², Karine De Oliveira Vigier¹

Affiliations

¹ Université de Poitiers, IC2MP, UMR CNRS 7285, 1 rue Marcel Doré, 86073 Poitiers Cedex 9, France.
² Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, UMR 5255 CNRS-Université de Bordeaux, 351 Cours de la Libération, 33405 Talence Cedex, France.

Abstract

The catalytic conversion of (ligno)cellulose is currently subject of intense research. Isosorbide is one of the interesting products that can be produced from (ligno)cellulose as it can be used for the synthesis of a wide range of pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and polymers. Isosorbide is obtained after the hydrolysis of cellulose to glucose, followed by the hydrogenation of glucose to sorbitol that is then dehydrated to isosorbide. The one-pot process requires an acid and a hydrogenation catalyst. Several parameters are of importance during the direct conversion of (ligno)cellulose such as the acidity, the crystallinity and the particle size of cellulose as well as the nature of the feedstocks. This review highlights all these parameters and all the strategies employed to produce isosorbide from (ligno)cellulose in a one-pot process.

Keywords: catalysis; cellulose; isosorbide; lignocellulosic biomass.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

The authors acknowledge the Region Nouvelle Aquitaine and the University of Poitiers for their financial support for the Ph.D. of I. Bonnin. They are grateful to the region Nouvelle Aquitaine for the CPER and EU-FEDER support and to INCREASE Federation.