Comprehensive investigation of the biomass derived furfuryl alcohol oligomer formation over tungsten oxide catalysts

Xiaojun Chan; Wei Nan; Devinder Mahajan; Taejin Kim

doi:10.1016/j.catcom.2015.08.027

Comprehensive investigation of the biomass derived furfuryl alcohol oligomer formation over tungsten oxide catalysts

Xiaojun Chan
, Wei Nan
, Devinder Mahajan
, Taejin Kim

Materials Science and Engineering

Stony Brook University

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Abstract

The feasibility of using tungsten oxide catalysts for furfuryl alcohol (FA) oligomerization reaction was investigated in the liquid phase at 100°C and ambient pressure. Five dimers (2,2′-difurylmethane, 2-(2-furylmethyl)-5-methylfuran, difurfuryl ether, 4-furfuryl-2-pentenoic acid γ-lactone, 5-fufuryl-furfuryl alcohol) and two trimers (2,5-difurfurylfuran and 2,2′-(furylmethylene)bis(5-methylfuran)) were observed in GC and GC/MS, while Infrared (IR) and Raman spectroscopy provided the co-existence of conjugated diene and diketone molecular structures, respectively. It was observed that C₉-C₁₅ oligomers' selectivity decreased as the reaction time increased. Ether bridge and terminal alcohol are dominant FA dimers which are very similar to sulfuric acid (homogeneous catalysis) catalyzed dehydration/condensation reaction of FA.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	11-15
Number of pages	5
Journal	Catalysis Communications
Volume	72
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catcom.2015.08.027
State	Published - Dec 5 2015

Keywords

Analytical method
Furfuryl alcohol oligomers
Heterogeneous catalysis
Infrared and Raman spectroscopy
Tungsten oxide

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