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ORGANIC PROCESS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Volume 21, Issue 2, Pages 165-170Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.6b00169
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- National Council of Science and Technology, Mexico (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia CONACyT) [216968]
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Converting hemicellulose into valuable platform chemicals is a key step in developing an integrated biorefinery. Traditionally, hemicellulose conversion into xylitol is done in two steps, using mineral acids and enzymes. Here we report a one pot hydrolysis-hydrogenation of hemicellulose to xylitol. We used a combination of either heteropoly acid or biomass-derived organic acid and Ru on carbon as catalyst. Silicotungstic acid, phosphotungstic acid, and lactic acid can be used efficiently in the hydrolysis part. Phosphomolybdic acid was not very active (<5% yield). The reduction can be done using either hydrogen gas or isopropanol as the reductant. The entire process runs in water, at relatively mild temperatures and pressures (140 degrees C and 20 bar). Lactic acid or phosphotungstic acid combined with Ru/C gave around 70% xylitol yield in 3 h using H-2 as a reductant. With isopropanol as a reductant, phosphotungstic acid and Ru/C gave a high xylitol yield (82%), while only similar to 20% xylitol yield was obtained with lactic acid.
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