Kinetic Regime Change in the Tandem Dehydrative Aromatization of Furan Diels–Alder Products
Abstract
Renewable production of p-xylene from [4 + 2] Diels–Alder cycloaddition of 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF) and ethylene with H–Y zeolite catalyst in n-heptane solvent is investigated. Experimental studies varying the solid acid catalyst concentration reveal two kinetic regimes for the p-xylene production rate: (i) a linear regime at low acid site concentrations with activation energy Ea = 10.8 kcal/mol and (ii) a catalyst-independent kinetic regime at high acid site concentrations with activation energy Ea = 20.1 kcal/mol. We carry out hybrid QM/MM calculations with a three-layer embedded cluster ONIOM model to compute the energetics along the main reaction pathway, and a microkinetic model is constructed for the interpretation of the experimental kinetic data. At high solid acid concentrations, p-xylene production is limited by the homogeneous Diels–Alder reaction, whereas at low acid concentrations, the overall rate is limited by the heterogeneously catalyzed dehydration of the Diels–Alder cycloadduct of DMF and ethylene because of an insufficient number of acid sites, despite the dehydration reaction requiring significantly less activation energy. A reduced kinetic model reveals that the production of p-xylene follows the general kinetics of tandem reactions in which the first step is uncatalyzed and the second step is heterogeneously catalyzed. Reaction orders and apparentmore »
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States, Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI), University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States,
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States, Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI), University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States,
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States, Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI), University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States,
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- Research Org.:
- Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1174229
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1385384
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0001004; AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- ACS Catalysis
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: ACS Catalysis Journal Volume: 5 Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2155-5435
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; catalysis (homogeneous); catalysis (heterogeneous); biofuels (including algae and biomass); bio-inspired; hydrogen and fuel cells; materials and chemistry by design; synthesis (novel materials); synthesis (self-assembly); synthesis (scalable processing); p-xylene; 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF); ethylene; Diels−Alder; dehydration; faujasite; microkinetic model
Citation Formats
Patet, Ryan E., Nikbin, Nima, Williams, C. Luke, Green, Sara K., Chang, Chun-Chih, Fan, Wei, Caratzoulas, Stavros, Dauenhauer, Paul J., and Vlachos, Dionisios G. Kinetic Regime Change in the Tandem Dehydrative Aromatization of Furan Diels–Alder Products. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1021/cs5020783.
Patet, Ryan E., Nikbin, Nima, Williams, C. Luke, Green, Sara K., Chang, Chun-Chih, Fan, Wei, Caratzoulas, Stavros, Dauenhauer, Paul J., & Vlachos, Dionisios G. Kinetic Regime Change in the Tandem Dehydrative Aromatization of Furan Diels–Alder Products. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/cs5020783
Patet, Ryan E., Nikbin, Nima, Williams, C. Luke, Green, Sara K., Chang, Chun-Chih, Fan, Wei, Caratzoulas, Stavros, Dauenhauer, Paul J., and Vlachos, Dionisios G. Thu .
"Kinetic Regime Change in the Tandem Dehydrative Aromatization of Furan Diels–Alder Products". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/cs5020783.
@article{osti_1174229,
title = {Kinetic Regime Change in the Tandem Dehydrative Aromatization of Furan Diels–Alder Products},
author = {Patet, Ryan E. and Nikbin, Nima and Williams, C. Luke and Green, Sara K. and Chang, Chun-Chih and Fan, Wei and Caratzoulas, Stavros and Dauenhauer, Paul J. and Vlachos, Dionisios G.},
abstractNote = {Renewable production of p-xylene from [4 + 2] Diels–Alder cycloaddition of 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF) and ethylene with H–Y zeolite catalyst in n-heptane solvent is investigated. Experimental studies varying the solid acid catalyst concentration reveal two kinetic regimes for the p-xylene production rate: (i) a linear regime at low acid site concentrations with activation energy Ea = 10.8 kcal/mol and (ii) a catalyst-independent kinetic regime at high acid site concentrations with activation energy Ea = 20.1 kcal/mol. We carry out hybrid QM/MM calculations with a three-layer embedded cluster ONIOM model to compute the energetics along the main reaction pathway, and a microkinetic model is constructed for the interpretation of the experimental kinetic data. At high solid acid concentrations, p-xylene production is limited by the homogeneous Diels–Alder reaction, whereas at low acid concentrations, the overall rate is limited by the heterogeneously catalyzed dehydration of the Diels–Alder cycloadduct of DMF and ethylene because of an insufficient number of acid sites, despite the dehydration reaction requiring significantly less activation energy. A reduced kinetic model reveals that the production of p-xylene follows the general kinetics of tandem reactions in which the first step is uncatalyzed and the second step is heterogeneously catalyzed. Reaction orders and apparent activation energies of quantum mechanical and microkinetic simulations are in agreement with experimental values.},
doi = {10.1021/cs5020783},
journal = {ACS Catalysis},
number = 4,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}
https://doi.org/10.1021/cs5020783
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