Continuous flow nanocatalysis: reaction pathways in the conversion of levulinic acid to valuable chemicals
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Title: | Continuous flow nanocatalysis: reaction pathways in the conversion of levulinic acid to valuable chemicals |
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Authors: | Bermúdez Menéndez, José Miguel | Menéndez Díaz, José Ángel | Romero, Antonio A. | Serrano, Elena | Garcia-Martinez, Javier | Luque, Rafael |
Research Group/s: | Laboratorio de Nanotecnología Molecular (NANOMOL) |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Química Inorgánica |
Keywords: | Flow nanocatalysis | Conversion | Levulinic acid | Valuable chemicals |
Knowledge Area: | Química Inorgánica |
Issue Date: | 31-Jul-2013 |
Publisher: | Royal Society of Chemistry |
Citation: | Green Chemistry. 2013, 15(10): 2786-2792. doi:10.1039/C3GC41022F |
Abstract: | The selective production of 2-methyltetrahydrofuran from levulinic acid has been effectively conducted using designed Cu based catalysts and compared with a commercial Pd/C system under microwave irradiation. Optimised conditions for the most active catalysts Cu-MINT (>90% conversion, 75% selectivity to MTHF) and Pd/C (78% conversion, 92% selectivity to MTHF) were further translated into a continuous flow process using the proposed catalysts to find out the deactivation of Cu-MINT under flow conditions (79 vs. 13% conversion with a switch in selectivity to products after 30 min in flow), the high stability of Pd/C (73 vs. 70% conversion at stable selectivity under analogous conditions to those of Cu-MINT) but, most importantly, different relevant pathways to valuable products from levulinic acid depending on the type of catalyst employed. |
Sponsor: | The authors thank the Spanish MINECO (project CTQ2011-28954-C02-01) for financial support. E.S. acknowledges financial support from JCI 2008-2165. R.L. gratefully acknowledges Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion, Gobierno de España for the concession of a Ramon y Cajal contract (RYC-2009-04199). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/33763 |
ISSN: | 1463-9262 (Print) | 1463-9270 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1039/C3GC41022F |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C3GC41022F |
Appears in Collections: | INV - NANOMOL - Artículos de Revistas |
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