Shiori Suzuki |
Research Faculty of Agriculture Fundamental AgriScience Research Forest Science |
Assistant Professor |
We proposed flame retardant thermoplastics derived from plant-based polymers by substitution with a single phosphonate-type ionic liquid species.
Cellulose triacetate was synthesised by the transesterification reaction of mild acid-pretreated lignocellulosic biomass with a stable acetylating reagent in an ionic liquid, EmimOAc, which enabled the dissolution of lignocellulose as well as the organocatalytic reaction.
Using Brønsted acidic ionic liquids with various structures, their acidic catalytic activity for cellulose hydrolysis assisted by microwave irradiation was assessed using the Hammett acidity function (
To establish simple synthetic process of cellulose ester, protic ionic liquids were used as reusable transesterification catalyst of cellulose.