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Product Control and Insight into Conversion of C6 Aldose Toward C2, C4 and C6 Alditols in One-Pot Retro-Aldol Condensation and Hydrogenation Processes
Gao, Lou,Hou, Wenrong,Hui, Yingshuang,Tang, Yi,Zhan, Yulu,Zhang, Yahong
, p. 560 - 566 (2021/06/25)
Alcohols have a wide range of applicability, and their functions vary with the carbon numbers. C6 and C4 alditols are alternative of sweetener, as well as significant pharmaceutical and chemical intermediates, which are mainly obtained through the fermentation of microorganism currently. Similarly, as a bulk chemical, C2 alditol plays a decisive role in chemical synthesis. However, among them, few works have been focused on the chemical production of C4 alditol yet due to its difficult accumulation. In this paper, under a static and semi-flowing procedure, we have achieved the product control during the conversion of C6 aldose toward C6 alditol, C4 alditol and C2 alditol, respectively. About C4 alditol yield of 20 % and C4 plus C6 alditols yield of 60 % are acquired in the one-pot conversion via a cascade retro-aldol condensation and hydrogenation process. Furthermore, in the semi-flowing condition, the yield of ethylene glycol is up to 73 % thanks to its low instantaneous concentration.
Effect of Cu addition to carbon-supported Ru catalysts on hydrogenation of alginic acid into sugar alcohols
Ban, Chunghyeon,Yang, Seungdo,Kim, Hyungjoo,Kim, Do Heui
, p. 98 - 104 (2019/04/17)
The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of Cu addition to carbon supported Ru catalysts on the hydrogenation of macroalgae-derived alginic acid into sugar alcohols, mainly sorbitol and mannitol. Both geometric and electronic effects were determined based on results of H2-TPR, H2- or CO-chemisorption, and XPS analyses after Cu was added to Ru. The addition of Cu to Ru caused blocking of active Ru surface and electron transfer between Ru and Cu. The intimate interaction between Ru and Cu formed RuCu bimetallic clusters which expedited hydrogen spillover from Ru to Cu. The highest yield of target sugar alcohols of 47.4% was obtained when 5 wt% of Ru and 1 wt% of Cu supported on nitric acid-treated activated carbon reacted at 180 °C for 2 h. The RuCu bimetallic catalyst exhibited deactivation upon repeated reactions due to the carbon deposition on the catalyst.
Hydrogenolysis of sorbitol into valuable C3-C2 alcohols at low H2 pressure promoted by the heterogeneous Pd/Fe3O4 catalyst
Gumina, Bianca,Mauriello, Francesco,Pietropaolo, Rosario,Galvagno, Signorino,Espro, Claudia
, p. 152 - 160 (2018/02/17)
The hydrogenolysis of sorbitol and various C5-C3 polyols (xylitol; erythritol; 1,2- 1,4- and 2,3-butandiol; 1,2-propandiol; glycerol) have been investigated at low molecular hydrogen pressure (5 bar) by using Pd/Fe3O4, as heterogeneous catalyst and water as the reaction medium. Catalytic experiments show that the carbon chain of polyols is initially shortened through dehydrogenation/decarbonylation and dehydrogenation/retro-aldol mechanisms followed by a series of cascade reactions that include dehydrogenation/decarbonylation and dehydration/hydrogenation processes. At 240 °C, sorbitol is fully converted into lower alcohols with ethanol being the main reaction product in liquid phase.
Effect of tungsten surface density of WO3-ZrO2 on its catalytic performance in hydrogenolysis of cellulose to ethylene glycol
Chai, Jiachun,Zhu, Shanhui,Cen, Youliang,Guo, Jing,Wang, Jianguo,Fan, Weibin
, p. 8567 - 8574 (2017/02/10)
One-pot hydrogenolysis of cellulose to ethylene glycol (EG) was carried out on WO3-based catalysts combined with Ru/C. To probe the active catalytic site for breaking the C-C bond of cellulose, a series of WO3-ZrO2 (WZr) catalysts were synthesized and systematically characterized with XRD, Raman, UV-Vis, H2-TPR, DRIFS and XPS techniques and N2 physisorption experiment. It was found that the WO3 crystallites became more easily reduced to W5+-OH species with increasing crystallite size or tungsten surface density of the WZr catalyst owing to the decrease of their absorption edge energy (AEE) originating from weakening their interaction with ZrO2 support. This, as a result, gave higher EG yield at higher tungsten surface density. The structure-activity relationship of the WZr catalyst reveals that the active catalytic site for cleaving the C2-C3 bond of the glucose molecule is the W5+-OH species.
Selective C?O Hydrogenolysis of Erythritol over Supported Rh-ReOx Catalysts in the Aqueous Phase
Said, Achraf,Da Silva Perez, Denilson,Perret, Noémie,Pinel, Catherine,Besson, Michèle
, p. 2768 - 2783 (2017/07/28)
Bimetallic Rh-ReOx (Re/Rh molar ratio 0.4–0.5) catalysts supported on TiO2 and ZrO2 were prepared by the successive impregnation of dried and calcined unreduced supported Rh catalysts. Their catalytic performances were evaluated in the hydrogenolysis of erythritol to butanetriols (BTO) and butanediols (BDO) in aqueous solution at 150–240 °C under 30–120 bar H2. The activity depended on the nature of the support, and the highest selectivity to BTO and BDO at 80 % conversion was 37 and 29 %, respectively, in the presence of 3.7 wt %Rh-3.5 wt %ReOx/ZrO2 at 200 °C under 120 bar. The characterization of the catalysts by CO chemisorption, TEM with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis with MS, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy suggests a different distribution and reducibility of Re species over the supported Rh nanoparticles, which depends on the support.
A facile synthesis of vicinal cis-diols from olefins catalyzed by in situ generated MnxOy nanoaggregates
Dalmizrak, Di?dem,G?ksu, Haydar,Gültekin, Mehmet Serdar
, p. 20751 - 20755 (2015/03/18)
A novel protocol for the practical and green synthesis of vicinal cis-diols from 10.0 mmol olefins by using 5.0 mmol KMnO4 as oxidant and 30.0 mmol H2O2 as co-oxidant is reported. The presented procedure is easy to carry out and enables the direct transformation of linear and cyclic alkenes to the corresponding vicinal cis-diols. The synthesis of vicinal cis-diols by dihydroxylation of olefins with a KMnO4/H2O2 system was catalyzed by in situ generated MnxOy nanoaggregates. The use of H2O2 as a co-oxidant is the key for the protocol to synthesize vicinal cis-diols in high yields, because it assists the oxidation of MnxOy nanoaggregates, which have an active role in the oxidation reaction medium.
Selective terminal C-C scission of C5-carbohydrates
Van Der Klis, Frits,Gootjes, Linda,Van Haveren, Jacco,Van Es, Daan S.,Bitter, Johannes H.
, p. 3900 - 3909 (2015/07/15)
The selective catalytic production of C4-tetritols (erythritol and threitol) from C5-sugars is an attractive route for the conversion of non-digestible sugars to C4-building blocks from agro residues. Here we show that an unprecedented high selectivity of 20-25% C4-tertritols can be achieved under mild conditions (138 °C, 6 bar H2, and 24 h) in the aqueous conversion of xylose over a 5 wt% Ru/C catalyst. A mechanistic study revealed that the dominant reaction mechanism for C5-sugar conversion involves a formal decarbonylation step leading to the initial formation of the desired C4-tetritols. Subsequently the formed C4-tetritols undergo further terminal C-C scissions to glycerol and ethylene glycol. Remarkably, potentially competing reactions like internal C-C chain scission (fragmentation) or hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) do not occur to any significant extent under the applied conditions.
Acid-catalyzed reactions of epoxides for atmospheric nanoparticle growth
Xu, Wen,Gomez-Hernandez, Mario,Guo, Song,Secrest, Jeremiah,Marrero-Ortiz, Wilmarie,Zhang, Annie L.,Zhang, Renyi
supporting information, p. 15477 - 15480 (2015/02/18)
Although new particle formation accounts for about 50% of the global aerosol production in the troposphere, the chemical species and mechanism responsible for the growth of freshly nucleated nanoparticles remain largely uncertain. Here we show large size
Promoting effect of SnOx on selective conversion of cellulose to polyols over bimetallic Pt-SnOx/Al2O3 catalysts
Deng, Tianyin,Liu, Haichao
, p. 116 - 124 (2013/02/26)
Cellulose is the most abundant source of biomass in nature, and its selective conversion into polyols provides a viable route towards the sustainable synthesis of fuels and chemicals. Here, we report the marked change in the distribution of polyols in the cellulose reaction with the Sn/Pt atomic ratios in a wide range of 0.1-3.8 on the SnOx-modified Pt/Al 2O3 catalysts. Such a change was found to be closely related to the effects of the Sn/Pt ratios on the activity for the hydrogenation of glucose and other C6 sugar intermediates involved in the cellulose reaction as well as to the notable activity of the segregated SnO x species for the selective degradation of the sugar intermediates on the Pt-SnOx/Al2O3 catalysts. At lower Sn/Pt ratios of 0.1-1.0, there existed electron transfer from the SnOx species to the Pt sites and strong interaction between the catalysts, as characterized by temperature-programmed reduction in H2 and infrared spectroscopy for CO adsorption, which led to their superior hydrogenation activity (per exposed Pt atom), and in-parallel higher selectivity to hexitols (e.g. sorbitol) in the cellulose reaction, as compared to Pt/Al 2O3. The hexitol selectivity reached the greatest value of 82.7% at the Sn/Pt ratio of 0.5, nearly two times that of Pt/Al 2O3 at similar cellulose conversions (～20%). As the Sn/Pt ratios exceeded 1.5, the Pt-SnOx/Al2O3 catalysts exhibited inferior hydrogenation activity (per exposed Pt atom), due to the formation of the crystalline Pt-Sn alloy, which led to the preferential conversion of cellulose to C2 and especially C3 products (e.g. acetol) over hexitols, most likely involving the isomerization of glucose to fructose and retro-aldol condensation of these sugars on the segregated SnOx species, apparently in the form of Sn(OH)2. These findings clearly demonstrate the feasibility for rational control of the cellulose conversion into the target polyols (e.g. acetol or propylene glycol), for example, by the design of efficient catalysts based on the catalytic functions of the SnOx species with tunable hydrogenation activity.
Asymmetric organocatalytic formation of protected and unprotected tetroses under potentially prebiotic conditions
Burroughs, Laurence,Clarke, Paul A.,Forintos, Henrietta,Gilks, James A. R.,Hayes, Christopher J.,Vale, Matthew E.,Wade, William,Zbytniewski, Myriam
experimental part, p. 1565 - 1570 (2012/04/05)
Esters of proteinogenic amino acids efficiently catalyse the formation of erythrose and threose under potentially prebiotic conditions in the highest yields and enantioselectivities yet reported. Remarkably while esters of (l)-proline yield (l)-tetroses, esters of (l)-leucine, (l)-alanine and (l)-valine generate (d)-tetroses, offering the potential to account for the link between natural (l)-amino acids and natural (d)-sugars. The effect of pH and NaCl on the yields and enantioselectivities was also investigated and was shown to be significant, with the optimal enantioselectivities occurring at pH 7.
