Issue 8, 2015
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Green Chemistry

Efficient and selective hydrogenation of biomass-derived furfural to cyclopentanone using Ru catalysts†

Ruiqi Fang,a   Hongli Liu,a   Rafael Luque*b  and  Yingwei Li*a  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
E-mail: liyw@scut.edu.cn

b Departamento de Química Orgánica. Universidad de Córdoba, Edif. Marie Curie, Ctra Nnal IVa, Km 396, E14014, Córdoba, Spain
E-mail: q62alsor@uco.es

Abstract

The selective hydrogenation of furfural into cyclopentanone is an attractive transformation to advance in the sustainable synthesis of important chemicals from biomass. A supported Ru nanoparticle catalyst on an acidic MOF material (Ru/MIL-101) was designed for the highly active and selective conversion of furfural to cyclopentanone in aqueous media. Complete conversion of furfural with a selectivity higher than 96% was achieved within 2.5 h at 160 °C and 4.0 MPa H2 pressure.

Graphical abstract: Efficient and selective hydrogenation of biomass-derived furfural to cyclopentanone using Ru catalysts

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5GC01462J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
29 Jun 2015
Accepted
09 Jul 2015
First published
09 Jul 2015

Green Chem., 2015,17, 4183-4188

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Efficient and selective hydrogenation of biomass-derived furfural to cyclopentanone using Ru catalysts

R. Fang, H. Liu, R. Luque and Y. Li, Green Chem., 2015, 17, 4183 DOI: 10.1039/C5GC01462J

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