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The acetalization of glycerol with acetone represents an effective strategy to produce the valuable solketal, a fuel additive component. In this work, the catalytic efficiency of different commercial heteropolyacids (HPAas) was compared under a solvent-free system. The HPAs used were H3[PW12O40] (PW12), H3[PMo12O40] (PMo12) and H4[SiW12O40] (SiW12). The influence of reactional parameters such as reactants stoichiometry, catalyst concentration and reaction temperature were investigated in order to optimize experimental conditions to increase cost-efficiency and sustainability. HPAs demonstrated to be highly efficient for this type of reaction, presenting a high and fast glycerol conversion, with high selectivity to solketal under sustainable conditions (solvent-free system and room temperature medium). The activity of HPAs using 3% to glycerol weight and a glycerol\/acetone ratio of 1:15 followed the order: PW12 (99.2%) &gt; PMo12 (91.4%) &gt; SiW12 (90.7%) as a result of the strong acidic sites after 5 min. In fact, only 5 min of reaction were needed to achieve 97% of solketal product in the presence of the PW12 as a catalyst. This last system presents an effective, selective and sustainable catalytic system to valorize glycerol.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/molecules27196573","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,9]],"date-time":"2022-10-09T23:31:43Z","timestamp":1665358303000},"page":"6573","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Easy and Fast Production of Solketal from Glycerol Acetalization via Heteropolyacids"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"27","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4657-4953","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Diana","family":"Juli\u00e3o","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"LAQV\/REQUIMTE & Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1952-8214","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fatima","family":"Mirante","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"LAQV\/REQUIMTE & Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8984-0473","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Salete S.","family":"Balula","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"LAQV\/REQUIMTE & Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Grubler, A. 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