Processing of wet Kinnow mandarin (Citrus reticulata) fruit waste into novel Brønsted acidic ionic liquids and their application in hydrolysis of sucrose

Autor: Pratibha Dwivedi, Mangat Singh, Naina Sehra, Bhuwan B. Mishra, Rajender S. Sangwan, Nishant Pandey
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Bioresource Technology. 250:621-624
ISSN: 0960-8524
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.11.100
Popis: In citrus processing industries, where up to 60% of the whole fruit is discarded, generates citrus waste (peel, seeds, membrane, and pulp) on a massive scale. The waste does not currently have high-value applications, instead the majority is disposed of or pelletized for animal feed. Therefore, a concise and efficacious protocol for processing of Kinnow mandarin (Citrus reticulata) fruit waste to numerous novel Bronsted acidic ionic liquids (3a-k) have been developed. BAILs were characterized using spectroscopic techniques (FT-IR and NMR). Water immiscibility of ILs 3a, 3g and 3h, a property never observed with sulfonic acid ILs, allowed the catalytic application of BAIL 3a in hydrolysis of sucrose/table sugar, giving a mixture of d-glucose and d-fructose in excellent yields. The ionic liquid could be recycled for >3 times without significant loss of activity.
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