Multiliter-Scale Photosensitized Dimerization of Isoprene to Sustainable Aviation Fuel Precursors.

ABSTRACT: Synthetic routes to sustainable aviation fuels are needed to mitigate the environmental impacts of the aviation sector. Among several emerging methods, the use of light-driven reactions benefits from milder conditions and the possibility of using sunlight to directly irradiate reactants or, alternatively, to power LEDs with a high and constant light intensity. Dinaphthylketone-photosensitized dimerization of isoprene can afford C₁₀ cycloalkenes that, after hydrogenation, meet the required properties for jet fuels (strongly resembling Jet-A). Isoprene can be photobiologically produced by metabolically engineered cyanobacteria from the conversion of CO₂ and water by utilizing solar light, contributing to a carbon-neutral process. The scale-up of such a combined photobio

SUBMITTER: Cid Gomes L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11837299 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature