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The production of diesel from vegetable oil calls for an efficient solid catalyst to make the process fully ecologically friendly. Here we describe the preparation of such a catalyst from common, inexpensive sugars. This high-performance catalyst, which consists of stable sulphonated amorphous carbon, is recyclable and its activity markedly exceeds that of other solid acid catalysts tested for ‘biodiesel’ production.
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Toda, M., Takagaki, A., Okamura, M. et al. Biodiesel made with sugar catalyst. Nature 438, 178 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/438178a
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