Upcycling Food Waste: Ursolic Acid as Sustainable Feedstock
Herein, a sustainable strategy to access the ursane class of natural products is presented. The complexity‐controlling synthesis approach employs ursolic acid—readily obtained from apple pomace, a waste product of apple juice production—as sustainable feedstock to access 24 natural products of the ursane family in short synthetic sequences (1–12 steps) and good yields (up to 98%).
Authors
- Adrián Gómez‐Suárez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4822-6554)
- Stefan F. Kirsch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2628-8703)
- Kathin Bensberg
- Cedric Meysing
- Nofisa Lamuadni
- Timo A. Zschau
Institutions
- University of Wuppertal (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Journal of Organic Chemistry
- Published
- 2025-06-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202500422
- Primary Topic
- Seed and Plant Biochemistry
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00