Teixeira, IF;
Lo, BTW;
Kostetskyy, P;
Stamatakis, M;
Ye, L;
Tang, CC;
Mpourmpakis, G;
(2016)
From Biomass-Derived Furans to Aromatics with Ethanol over Zeolite.
Angewandte Chemie
, 128
(42)
pp. 13255-13260.
10.1002/ange.201604108.
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Abstract
We report a novel catalytic conversion of biomass‐derived furans and alcohols to aromatics over zeolite catalysts. Aromatics are formed via Diels–Alder cycloaddition with ethylene, which is produced in situ from ethanol dehydration. The use of liquid ethanol instead of gaseous ethylene, as the source of dienophile in this one‐pot synthesis, makes the aromatics production much simpler and renewable, circumventing the use of ethylene at high pressure. More importantly, both our experiments and theoretical studies demonstrate that the use of ethanol instead of ethylene, results in significantly higher rates and higher selectivity to aromatics, due to lower activation barriers over the solid acid sites. Synchrotron‐diffraction experiments and proton‐affinity calculations clearly suggest that a preferred protonation of ethanol over the furan is a key step facilitating the Diels–Alder and dehydration reactions in the acid sites of the zeolite.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | From Biomass-Derived Furans to Aromatics with Ethanol over Zeolite |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ange.201604108 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.201604108 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Biomasse, Cycloadditionen, Ethanol, Strukturaufklärung, Zeolithe |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10084746 |
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