Glycerol Diacetate Finds Application in Food, Beverage, Tobacco Product Manufacturing and As A Solvent in the Construction and Industrial Sectors

 

Glycerol Diacetate

Glycerol diacetate, also known as diacetin, is a food additive. It is a mixture of the 1, 2- and 1,3-diacetates of glycerol and contains small traces of mono- and tri-esters. This volatile acetylated glycerol is also used as a flavoring agent in e-cigarettes. It is clear and colorless in appearance. It is o found in floral oil secreting plants, where it is reported to act as a signal for oil-collecting bees to locate these plants, thus playing a key role in pollination.

Glycerol diacetate is majorly used as a solvent. It is also used in the construction and industrial sectors. Other applications include in food, beverage, and tobacco product manufacturing. Carbon content is catalytically active for the synthesis of Glycerol diacetate. It is used as a solvent, plasticizer, and softening agent. This volatile acetylated glycerol is also a floral signal compound shared by unrelated oil plants.

Glycerol diacetate occurs as a floral scent constituent in most of the oil plant species. It is found in antennae of M. fulvipes and various other oil plants. It is thus recognized as a reliable cue and private communication channel in a specialized pollination system. It attracts bees as the compound elicits strong antennal responses in oil bees. The compound allows the Holarctic Macropis oil bee to rapidly and efficiently locate their oil secreting host plants. This further suggests the presence of a private communication channel between a pollinator and its host plant.

Glycerol diacetate is produced in conversion of glycerol to a fuel additive mixture. The mixture contains solketalacetin ((2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-yl)methyl acetate), solketal, and minimum amount of diacetin with no byproducts. Glycerol diacetate, however, does not meet the diesel and biodiesel fuel requirements in the U.S. and EU countries such as Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Bulgaria.


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