Biobased dimethyl isosorbide as an efficient solvent for alkaline hydrolysis of waste polyethylene terephthalate to terephthalic acid

Green Chem., 2023, 25,7807-7816
DOI: 10.1039/D3GC02308G, Paper
Haitao Yu, Yang Wang, Lan Chen, Chenyang Wei, Tiancheng Mu, Zhimin Xue
Biobased DMI showed good ability to rapidly dissolve PET with a solubility of 0.3 gPET gDMI−1 at 170 °C in 10 min and DMI-based solvents were highly effective for alkaline hydrolysis of PET to generate TPA with a yield of 99.6% at 100 °C in 30 min.
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