Oxidation of Renewables

Abstract

A review. Industrially relevant oxidation reaction of renewables which represents a powerful strategy for the incorporation of renewables into the chem. value chain and becoming an alternative for petrochem.-based processes are overviewed. The target and research focus should be on fulfilling the restrictions of green chem. which asks to perform oxidations in selective, non-toxic, and resource-efficient catalytic processes. Thus, present catalyst systems need to be optimized, particularly towards catalyst recycling as well as the usage of mol. oxygen to observe an overall low C:O ratio.