Wang, Chunhua; Wang, Anjie; Yu, Zhiquan; Wang, Yao; Sun, Zhichao; Kogan, Victor M.; Liu, Ying-Ya published the artcile< Aqueous phase hydrogenation of furfural to tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol over Pd/UiO-66>, Quality Control of 97-99-4, the main research area is hydrogenation furfural tetrahydrofurfuryl palladium catalyst.
A Pd/UiO-66 catalyst was synthesized with well-dispersed Pd nanoparticles. The obtained catalyst was tested in the hydrogenation of furfural to tetrahydrofurfuryl alc. in various solvents, Water was the most suitable solvent. Pd/UiO-66 exhibited much higher activity than Pd/SiO2 and Pd/γ-Al2O3, completely converting furfural to tetrahydrofurfuryl alc. with 100% selectivity under mild conditions. The hydrogenation of C=O moiety in tetrahydrofurfural was rate-determining step. Static adsorption measurement indicated that the adsorption of furfural on UiO-66 was significantly stronger than that on SiO2 or γ-Al2O3, suggesting that the adsorption play an important role in the gas-liquid-solid furfural hydrogenation reaction.
Catalysis Communications published new progress about Catalyst supports. 97-99-4 belongs to class tetrahydrofurans, and the molecular formula is C5H10O2, Quality Control of 97-99-4.
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