Journal
APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
Volume 166, Issue -, Pages 460-464Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2014.11.049
Keywords
Trisaccharides; Sorbitol; Catalytic system; Hydrolysis; Hydrogenation; Kinetics
Funding
- Robert Bosch Foundation
- Excellence Initiative by the German federal and state governments to promote science and research at German universities
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The production of sorbitol from polysaccharides is widely believed to proceed via hydrolysis to glucose and subsequent hydrogenation. Nevertheless, our previous study on the hydrolytic hydrogenation of cellobiose confirmed simultaneous hydrolysis and hydrogenation with a higher kinetic selectivity of hydrogenation over hydrolysis. Herein, kinetics of hydrogenolysis of trisaccharides with alpha-1,4 and beta-1,4 glycosidic linkages were studied using Ru/C in combination with a molecular acid as catalyst system. Kinetic analysis emphasises a fast hydrogenation of the reducing end of trisaccharides followed by a facilitated cleavage of the terminal sorbitol unit. Considering the obtained reaction rate constants, hydrogenation compared to hydrolysis proceeds up to 24 and 15 times faster for maltotriose and cellotriose, respectively. Additionally, superior reaction rate constants and decreased activation energies for hydrolytic cleavage of sorbitol can be observed. Hence, a sequential hydrogenation-hydrolysis pathway clearly contributes to sorbitol formation based on oligosaccharides. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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