Chinese team uses light to convert fatty acids into alkanes with up to 95% yield; photocatalytic decarboxylation

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By mmillikinFeb 24, 2020, 4:00 am280 pts
Researchers led by Prof. WANG Feng at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reported that photocatalytic decarboxylation is an efficient alternate pathway for converting biomass-derived fatty acids into alkanes under mild conditions of ambient temperature and…

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