Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique

Adisseo France Sas

Pascaline Lauriol-Garbey

Virginie Belliere-Baca

Jean-Marc Millet

Stéphane Loridant

A method of preparing acrolein from glycerol or glycerine is disclosed. The method includes dehydrating glycerol or glycerine in the presence of a catalyst consisting of at least (a) a mixed oxide of zirconium and at least one metal, said metal being selected from niobium, tantalum and vanadium, or (b) a zirconium oxide and at least one metal oxide, the metal being selected from niobium, tantalum and vanadium, or (c) a silicon oxide and a mixed oxide of zirconium and at least one metal, the metal being selected from tungsten, cerium, manganese, niobium, tantalum, titanium, vanadium and silicon, or (d) a titanium oxide and a mixed oxide of zirconium and at least one metal, said metal being selected from tungsten, cerium, manganese, niobium, tantalum, titanium, vanadium and silicon.

Method for preparing acrolein from glycerol or glycerine

The invention concerns a method for preparing acrolein from glycerol or glycerine, wherein dehydration of the glycerol or glycerine is achieved in the presence of a catalyst based on zirconium oxide and which active phase consists in at least This method can be used for making 3-(methylthio)propionic aldehyde MMP, 2-hydroxy-4-methylthiobutyronitrile HMTBN, methionine and its analogs.

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