Selective production of furfural from the dehydration of xylose using Zn doped CuO catalyst

Rahul Kumar Mishra; Vijay Bhooshan Kumar; Amudavalli Victor; Indra Neel Pulidindi; Aharon Gedanken

doi:10.1016/j.ultsonch.2019.03.015

Selective production of furfural from the dehydration of xylose using Zn doped CuO catalyst

Rahul Kumar Mishra, Vijay Bhooshan Kumar, Amudavalli Victor, Indra Neel Pulidindi, Aharon Gedanken

Department of Chemistry

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Abstract

Furfural is a versatile biomass-derived platform compound used for the synthesis of several strategic chemicals. The sonochemically synthesized Zn doped CuO nanoparticles (NPs) were used for the production of furfural. The catalytic activity of the Zn doped CuO NPs was examined, as a model, during the dehydration reaction of xylose to furfural. In addition to that, we have also compared the catalytic activity of the Zn doped CuO NP with ZnO NPs, ZnO bulk, CuO NPs, CuO bulk, etc. This nanoscale catalyst (Zn doped CuO NP) has a large surface area, which enhances its catalytic activity and enables it to completely convert the xylose to furfural at 150 °C within 12 h without any trace of by-products, as confirmed by HPLC, ¹³C NMR and ¹H NMR. HPLC analysis demonstrated that the yield of furfural is up to 86 mol %, compared to the 45 mol % obtained with ZnO NPs, ZnO bulk, CuO NPs, CuO bulk, etc. as catalysts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	55-62
Number of pages	8
Journal	Ultrasonics Sonochemistry
Volume	56
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultsonch.2019.03.015
State	Published - Sep 2019

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The authors acknowledge with thankfulness the generous support of the Israel Science Foundation (ISF, Grant No. 598/12 ) and the Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Space (Grant Nos. 3-9802 and 3-99763 ) by funding this work.

Funders	Funder number
Ministry of Science, Technology and Space	3-9802, 3-99763
Israel Science Foundation	598/12

Keywords

Furfural production
Sonochemistry
Xylose dehydration
Zn doped CuO NPs

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