: . aldehyde condensation 1 1 2 1 FENG Xinzhen ,LIU Jun , ,JI Weijie (1 School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu, China; 2 Weifang University of Science and Technology, Weifang 262700, Shandong, China) In recent years, a new route to acrylic acid (acrylate) production through the condensation Abstract: reaction between formaldehyde and acetic acid (methyl acetate) received substantial attention from both academic and industrial communities. This reaction route is technically simpler and the feedstock can be obtained from natural gas and coal, which is economically favorable for sustainable acrylic acid production. So far, multifarious types of catalysts have been studied, including vanadium phosphorus oxide (VPO), supported alkali metal/alkaline earth metals, and ionic liquid, . This paper reviewed the etc recent achievements on the above catalysts and commented the advantages and disadvantages of the applied catalysts. The ionic liquid catalyst can be operated at rather low temperature with low energy consumption and high target product selectivity, whereas the nature of non-continuous homogeneous catalytic reaction causes the difficulties in product separation and catalyst recycling as well as the low process efficiency. The VPOs and alkali metal/alkaline earth metals are operated continuously at high 2020-10-09 2021-01-12 收稿日期: ;修改稿日期: 。 21673112 - 基金项目:国家自然科学基金 ( );上海华谊新材料有限公司 南京大学协作项目。 1983 E-mail ******@