A STUDY OF THE OXIDATION OF SOME DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS BY HYDROGEN PEROXIDE IN THE PRESENCE OF CERTAIN CATALYSTS¹

Selective oxidation of glycerol to formic acid catalyzed by iron salts

“…When a catalytic test was performed replacing glycerol with FA as substrate no reaction was observed, as opposed to the results reported by Walton [4] on the iron catalyzed oxidation of FA to carbon dioxide and water.…”

“…The difficulties experienced in developing selective routes for a partial oxidation of glycerol would be overcome by pushing the oxidation process to its end, for example to formic acid (FA) as final product. Few studies report glycerol oxidation to FA in the past literature [4], but their number has been growing in very recent years [5][6][7][8]. Most of the reported systems are based on heterogeneous catalysts and the oxidant agent can be hydrogen peroxide as well as molecular oxygen.…”

Nonaqueous Emulsion Polymerization Systems

“…Of the publications available those of Marvel et al (8, 9). Wall and Swoboda (24), Kern (7), and Johnson and Bebb (6) product with iron ion. The second recipe was suitable using no iron ion at all.…”

Valorization of Glycerol through Plasma‐Induced Transformation into Formic Acid

“…In 1928, an oxidation process in the presence of hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) was found to produce formic acid from glycerol for the first time. [22] Afterward, various catalysts (e. g. iron based, [23,24] Pd based, [25] or Ru(OH) 4 with r-GO in FeCl 3 [26] ) were developed to promote H 2 O 2 reactivity and oxidative CÀ C bond cleavage to achieve a wide range of selectivity (0-100 %) or high production yield (> 60 mol%). An oxidation process with molecular oxygen was also tested with vanadium-substituted phosphomolybdic acid, producing 36.4-wt % formic acid.…”