Journal
ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING
Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 195-203Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/sc5007158
Keywords
Aqueous-phase hydrogen transfer; bicarbonate hydrogenation; biomass dehydrogenation; palladium catalyst; carboxylic acids
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- National Science Foundation [CBET 1337017]
- NSF through the MRSEC program
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A novel approach to coproduce value-added carboxylic acids has been developed via a one-pot aqueous-phase hydrogen transfer (APHT) process, in which hydrogen in biomass molecules is transferred to carbonate/bicarbonate ions over supported noble metal nanocatalysts. In mild hydrothermal media, a variety of biomass derived alcohols or polyols have been efficiently converted to carboxylic acids, while simultaneously, formates have been obtained from the reduction of carbonates/bicarbonate salts without using external H-2. In an APHT process at the optimized reaction conditions, a high yield of lactate, similar to 55%, was achieved using glycerol as the hydrogen donor, and simultaneously, similar to 30% of formate was produced by the reduction of sodium bicarbonates over the Pd on a carbon catalyst. The catalyst was stable after three-time consecutive reuse without regeneration, and the possible APHT reaction mechanism was proposed.
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