Heteropoly acid catalyzed hydrolysis of glycogen to glucose

Miri Klein, Indra Neel Pulidindi, Nina Perkas, Aharon Gedanken

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Abstract

Complete conversion of glycogen to glucose is achieved by using H3PW12O40·nH2O (HPW) and H4SiW12O40·nH2O (HSiW) as catalysts for the hydrolysis under optimized hydrothermal conditions (mass fraction of catalyst 2.4%, 373K and 2h reaction time). The reusability of the catalyst (HPW) was demonstrated. In addition to carrying out the glycogen hydrolysis in an autoclave, other novel methods such as microwave irradiation and sonication have also been investigated. At higher mass fraction of the heteropoly acids (10.5%), glycogen could be completely converted to glucose under microwave irradiation. Sonication of an aqueous solution of glycogen in the presence of HPW and HSiW also yielded glucose. Thus, heteropoly acids are efficient, environmentally friendly and reusable catalysts for the conversion of glycogen to glucose.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)61-68
Number of pages8
JournalBiomass and Bioenergy
Volume76
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 May 2015

Bibliographical note

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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.

Funding

Gedanken thanks the Israel Science Foundation for supporting the research via a grant 12/586 and also the Ministry of Science and Technology for grant number 3-9802 .

FundersFunder number
Israel Science Foundation12/586
Ministry of science and technology, Israel3-9802

    Keywords

    • Glucose
    • Glycogen
    • Heteropoly acid
    • Hydrothermal
    • Microwave irradiation
    • Sonication

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