“…Glycerol or propane-1,2,3-triol 1 is now produced in large quantities as a byproduct in many industries [3,4,5]. The large-scale production of biodiesel from fats, where glycerol is a waste product, has made glycerol a highly economic solvent and reactant [6,7,8,9,10,11,12]. This has attracted many researchers in the last two decades to find routes for converting this surplus into value added products [13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24].…”