TY - JOUR
T1 - Acetalization of furfural with zeolites under benign reaction conditions
AU - Rubio-Caballeroa, Juan Miguel
AU - Shunmugavel, Saravanamurugan
AU - Maireles-Torres, Pedro
AU - Riisager, Anders
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Acetalization is a viable method to protect carbonyl functionalities in organic compounds and offers apotential synthetic strategy for synthesizing derived chemicals. In this work, several families of commer-cial zeolites have been employed as solid acid catalysts in the acetalization of furfural to form furfuraldiethyl acetal at room temperature using ethanol as a renewable solvent. Among the tested catalysts,H-USY (6) provided the highest catalytic activity (79% acetal yield), excellent selectivity and reusabilityin five consecutive reaction runs. Process parameters such as, e.g. reaction time, catalyst loading andapplicability of different lower alcohols were evaluated and optimized
AB - Acetalization is a viable method to protect carbonyl functionalities in organic compounds and offers apotential synthetic strategy for synthesizing derived chemicals. In this work, several families of commer-cial zeolites have been employed as solid acid catalysts in the acetalization of furfural to form furfuraldiethyl acetal at room temperature using ethanol as a renewable solvent. Among the tested catalysts,H-USY (6) provided the highest catalytic activity (79% acetal yield), excellent selectivity and reusabilityin five consecutive reaction runs. Process parameters such as, e.g. reaction time, catalyst loading andapplicability of different lower alcohols were evaluated and optimized
KW - Furfural
KW - Zeolites
KW - H-USY (6)
KW - Furfural diethyl acetal
KW - Ethanol
U2 - 10.1016/j.cattod.2014.03.004
DO - 10.1016/j.cattod.2014.03.004
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0920-5861
VL - 234
SP - 233
EP - 236
JO - Catalysis Today
JF - Catalysis Today
ER -
