Chemist proposes new way to improve fuel quality using microwave irradiation
(PHYSorg.com Chemistry)

A chemist from RUDN University has found an environmentally friendly way to obtain esters of levulinic acid used as a fuel additive for chemical synthesis. Together with colleagues from France, Greece and Spain, he obtained these esters from furfuryl and aliphatic alcohols and used activated carbon as a catalyst under microwave exposure. The results were published in the journal Molecular Catalysis.