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Hierarchically porous single catalyst Ru/HPW/UiO-66 with synergistic acid/metal sites for one-pot catalytic synthesis of γ-valerolactone

Journal

NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
Volume 46, Issue 27, Pages 13047-13053

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2nj02266d

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Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China-Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (NSFC-DFG) project [51861135313, DFG JA466/39-1]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21706199]
  3. Rapid Response Bilateral Collaborative Funding of the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion [C-0046]
  4. International Science & Technology Cooperation Program of China [2015DFE52870]
  5. Young Top-notch Talent Cultivation Program of Hubei Province

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In this study, a hierarchically multifunctional single catalyst of Ru/phosphotungstic acid/hierarchically porous UiO-66 (Ru/HPW/HP-UiO-66) was fabricated and successfully applied in the one-pot synthesis of GVL. The catalyst exhibited excellent catalytic activity and stability for GVL synthesis, and also showed extraordinary performance in the hydrogenation of different unsaturated hydrocarbons in aqueous solution.
gamma-Valerolactone (GVL) is an important lignocellulosic platform molecule with huge potential for various industrial and chemical applications, which is usually produced using levulinic acid (LA) or its esters as raw materials. However, a two-step reaction process in which hydrogenation of the carbonyl groups on metal sites and subsequent lactonization catalyzed by acidic sites over multiple catalysts has generally been needed to realize this synthesis. In this work, a hierarchically multifunctional single catalyst of Ru/phosphotungstic acid/hierarchically porous UiO-66 (Ru/HPW/HP-UiO-66), simultaneously integrated with acidic and metal sites, has been fabricated via a simple strategy and successfully applied in the one-pot synthesis of GVL using methyl levulinate (ML) as the raw material. The hierarchically porous and nanosized (similar to 15 nm) HP-UiO-66 can not only provide sufficient space for the mass transfer of substrates but also favors the loading of bulk HPW molecules, which can effectively mediate the catalytic activities and stability of Ru NPs using the confined pore effect of UiO-66 and the strong interaction between HPW and Ru. When applied in the one-pot synthesis of GVL, the hierarchical Ru/HPW/HP-UiO-66 catalyst showed excellent catalytic activity (>97% yield) and stability (maintained after 7 successive cycles) for GVL. More importantly, the hierarchical catalyst also exhibited an extraordinary performance in the hydrogenation of different unsaturated hydrocarbons in aqueous solution. It is expected that our study offers a novel route to biomass upgrades involving metal/acid bifunctional synergistic catalysts.

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