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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 474, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2023.145716
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Cellulose conversion; Lactic acid; Cu(II)-Sn(IV); Thermal/photocatalysis
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A novel aerogel was synthesized and applied as a thermal/photocatalyst for the production of lactic acid from cellulose. The aerogel showed excellent catalytic performance for the isomerization of sugars and the selective conversion of lactic acid.
Biorefinery of cellulose-based materials to obtain high-value products have always been impeded by the energy barrier required for the isomerization from glucose to fructose. Here, a novel CuxSnSO@GO aerogel is synthesized and applied as thermal/photocatalyst for lactic acid (LA) production from cellulose. As a thermalcatalyst, the co-existence of Cu(II) and Sn(IV) show prominent to realize the isomerization of reducing sugars to fructose under mild conditions. Fructose accumulated due to the relatively lagging thermalcatalytic conversion rate would supply for photocatalytic process. As a photocatalyst, the regulated band structure exhibits superior performance for selective cleavage C-3-C-4 bonds in fructose as well as the subsequent transformation of trioses to LA. The optimal lactic acid yield is about 83.6% at 80 degrees C and the aerogel shows stable and recyclable characteristics. DFT calculation and scavenging experiments disclosing all activate radicals (center dot OH, center dot O-2(-), h(+)) contributed to the selective transformation process and center dot O-2 - was responsible for the main contribution.
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