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Synthesis of glycerol carbonate with high surface area ZrO2–KOH catalyst

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High surface area ZrO2–KOH sample was prepared and used the catalyst for the synthesis of glycerol carbonate (GC) from dimethyl carbonate (DMC) and glycerol. The structure properties of ZrO2–KOH were characterized by XRD, BET, CO2-TPD, XPS, and ICP-OES. It was found that the strong basicity of ZrO2–KOH might be attributed to the oxygen vacancies as well as the big surface area. Experiments were developed to evaluate the effects of catalysis loading, proportion of reactants, temperature and reaction time on the conversion of glycerol to GC. The consequences showed that ZrO2–KOH was a highly efficient basic catalyst for synthesis of GC from glycerol. The catalytic performance of ZrO2–KOH is much better than that of ZrO2–KOH–CP, ZrO2–NH4OH, and some reported heterogeneous catalysts. And the higher performance of ZrO2–KOH was ascribed to the strong basicity. 99.43% conversion was obtained in a particular situation of catalyst/glycerol weight ratio of 3 wt%, DMC/glycerol molar ratio of 3:1, reaction temperature of 80 °C, and reaction time of 2 h. The plausible reaction mechanism for the transesterification on the strong basic active sites was discussed.

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This study was financially supported by the Strong Youth Talent Plan Project in **njiang Production & Construction Corps (2021CB031), the Start Up Foundation for Young Scientists of Shihezi University (RCZK2018C25) and Program for Young Innovative Talents of Shihezi University (CXBJ202103, CXBJ202008).

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    Yueyu Liu, Zhili Yin, Ziqing Wang, Ronglin Mou & Zhong Wei

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    Zhili Yin, Ziqing Wang & Zhong Wei

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YL: conceptualization, methodology, investigate and survey, writing-original draft. ZY: investigate, data administration, supervision, writing-review and editing. ZW: methodology, supervision, project management, writing-review and editing, funding acquisition. RM: software, investigation. ZW: supervision and validation, writing-review and editing, resources.

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Liu, Y., Yin, Z., Wang, Z. et al. Synthesis of glycerol carbonate with high surface area ZrO2–KOH catalyst. Res Chem Intermed 48, 2557–2573 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11164-022-04725-6

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