2018 AIChE Annual Meeting

(48b) Reaction Mechanism of Retro-aldol Condensation under Hydrothermal Condition

Authors

Rahmat I. Mainil - Presenter, Hiroshima University
Nattacha Paksung, Hiroshima University
Yukihiko Matsumura, Hiroshima University at Japan
The reaction mechanism of retro-aldohol condensation has been a mystery. In the organic chemistry textbooks, retro-aldohol condensation is written as ionic reaction. However, the experiment on temperature effect on the reaction rate of retro-aldohol condensation has shown it is a radical reaction. We employed glyceraldehyde, the simplest sugar to find out the reaction mechanism, and determined it was surely a radical reaction.