WU Congyi1,2, CHEN Jing1*
(1. State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China; 2. Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China)
Abstract: As an important chemical raw materials, 1,3-propanediol has been paid ever increasing attention, and much effort has been made. In addition to classical preparation methods such as hydration of acrolein, hydroformylation of ethylene oxide to 3-hydroxypropanal followed by hydrogenation, and the fermentation of polyol by microbial to 1,3-propanediol, hydrogenation of methyl 3-hydroxypropionate and selective hydrogenolysis of glycerol to 1,3-propanediol as novel alternative routes has been focus. In this paper, the present status and research advances on preparation of 1,3-propanediol were reviewed. Moreover, the development trends and future were also discussed based on the previous work.
Key words: 1 3-propanediol; 3-hydroxypropana;l fermentation; glycerol; hydrogenation
E-mail: wucongyi@yahoo.cn
Journal of Molecular Catalysis, Vol. 26, Issue 3, 2012, 276-283
