Polymers without petrochemicals: sustainable routes to conventional monomers

G Hayes, M Laurel, D MacKinnon, T Zhao… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Access to a wide range of plastic materials has been rationalized by the increased demand
from growing populations and the development of high-throughput production systems …

Recent catalytic innovations in furfural transformation

K Zhao, B Wen, Q Tang, F Wang, X Liu, Q Xu, D Yin - Green Chemistry, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
To address the problem of non-renewable resources and energy shortages, converting
biomass, the only renewable carbon resource on Earth, into various fine chemicals holds …

Unveiling and understanding the remarkable enhancement in the catalytic activity by the defect creation in UIO-66 during the catalytic transfer hydrodeoxygenation of …

AK Kar, R Sarkar, AK Manal, R Kumar… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
The catalytic transfer hydrodeoxygenation of vanillin is generally achieved using noble
metal-based catalysts. Herein, we report a mechanistic investigation of the catalytic transfer …

Phosphotungstic acid supported on Zr-SBA-15 as an efficient catalyst for one-pot conversion of furfural to γ-valerolactone

Z Liu, Z Zhang, Y Zhou, Z Wang, M Du, Z Wen, B Yan… - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of high-performance solid catalysts for the utilization of biomass has
become an important research topic in heterogeneous catalysis and sustainable chemistry …

Toward efficient heterogeneous catalysts for in-situ hydrodeoxygenation of biomass

H Xu, J Ju, H Li - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Heterogeneous catalysts have achieved tremendous breakthroughs for in-situ HDO of
biomass in recent years. Comprehensive understanding of the structure-performance …

Bifunctional acid‐base zirconium phosphonate for catalytic transfer hydrogenation of levulinic acid and cascade transformation of furfural to biofuel molecules

AK Manal, JH Advani, R Srivastava - ChemCatChem, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The production of biofuels, such as furfural ether and γ‐valerolactone (GVL) from biomass
platform chemicals furfural (FFA) and Levulinic acid (LA) is of significant interest. In this …

Cascade upgrading of biomass-derived furfural to γ-valerolactone over Zr/Hf-based catalysts

W Sun, H Li, X Wang, A Liu - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Biomass feedstocks are promising candidates of renewable clean energy. The development
and utilization of biological energy is in line with the concept of sustainable development …

Recyclable Zr/Hf-containing acid-base bifunctional catalysts for hydrogen transfer upgrading of biofuranics: A review

Y Liu, X Liu, M Li, Y Meng, J Li, Z Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The massive burning of a large amount of fossil energy has caused a lot of serious
environmental issues (eg, air pollution and climate change), urging people to efficiently …

Studies on bimetallic Cu–Ag supported alumina catalysts for hydrodeoxygenation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to 2, 5-dimethylfuran

DD Lakshmi, BS Rao, N Lingaiah - Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Selective synthesis of 2, 5-dimethylfuran (DMF) from 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF) by
hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) was studied over Ag-promoted Cu/γ-Al2O3 catalysts. A series of …

Recent advances on bifunctional catalysts for one-pot conversion of furfural to γ-valerolactone

J Wang, Z Xiang, Z Huang, Q Xu, D Yin - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
γ-Valerolactone (GVL) is one of the most valuable compounds derived from furfural (FAL),
which has been industrially produced from agricultural byproducts like corn cobs. It is …