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Upcycling Food Waste: Ursolic Acid as Sustainable Feedstock

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: 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%).

Source: European Journal of Organic Chemistry

DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202500422

Authors: Timo A. Zschau, Kathrin Bensberg, Cedric Meysing, Nofisa Lamuadni, Adrián Gómez‐Suárez, Stefan F. Kirsch

Institution: University of Wuppertal

Language: English

Topic: Natural product bioactivities and synthesis

Subfield: Molecular Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

SDGs: Responsible consumption and production, Zero hunger

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $4,330