Acid-Functionalized Mesoporous Carbon: An Efficient Support for Ruthenium-Catalyzed γ-Valerolactone Production

Villa, Alberto; Schiavoni, Marco; Chan-Thaw, Carine E.; Fulvio, Pasquale F.; Mayes, Richard T.; Dai, Sheng; More, Karren L.; Veith, Gabriel M.; Prati, Laura

doi:10.1002/cssc.201500331

Title: Acid-Functionalized Mesoporous Carbon: An Efficient Support for Ruthenium-Catalyzed γ-Valerolactone Production

Journal Article · Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · ChemSusChem

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201500331· OSTI ID:1265712

Villa, Alberto ^[1]; Schiavoni, Marco ^[1]; Chan-Thaw, Carine E. ^[1]; Fulvio, Pasquale F. ^[2]; Mayes, Richard T. ^[3]; Dai, Sheng ^[4]; More, Karren L. ^[5]; Veith, Gabriel M. ^[5]; Prati, Laura ^[1]

Univ. of Milan (Italy)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Puerto Rico, San Juan (Puerto Rico)
Univ. of Puerto Rico, San Juan (Puerto Rico)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

The hydrogenation of levulinic acid has been studied using Ru supported on ordered mesoporous carbons (OMCs) prepared by soft-templating. P- and S-containing acid groups were introduced by postsynthetic functionalization before the addition of 1% Ru by incipient wetness impregnation. These functionalities and the reaction conditions mediate the activity and selectivity of the levulinic acid hydrogenation. The presence of Scontaining groups (Ru/OMC-S and Ru/OMC-P/S) deactivates the Ru catalysts strongly, whereas the presence of P-containing groups (Ru/OMC-P) enhances the activity compared to that of pristine Ru/OMC. Under mild conditions (70 8C and 7 bar H2) the catalyst shows high selectivity to g-valerolactone (GVL; >95%) and high stability on recycling. However, under more severe conditions (200 8C and pH2=40 bar) Ru/OMC-P is particularly able to promote GVL ring-opening and the consecutive hydrogenation to pentanoic acid.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

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OSTI ID:: 1265712

Journal Information:: ChemSusChem, Vol. 8, Issue 15; ISSN 1864-5631

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