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SUBMITTER: Yang S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5636835 | biostudies-other | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Scientific reports 20171011 1
The spice flavour compound 2, 2'-difurfuryl ether (DFE) is widely utilised in the food industry as it has a coffee-like, nutty, earthy, mushroom-like odour. However, despite intensive research efforts, to date, an environmentally friendly and practical synthetic preparation technique for 2, 2'-difurfuryl ether is still unavailable. Here, we investigate a new approach using polyoxometalate catalysts to selectively catalytically dehydrate furfuryl alcohol to 2, 2'-difurfuryl ether. We have success ...[more]