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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2016 Aug 24;8(33):21285-93. doi: 10.1021/acsami.6b05096. Epub 2016 Aug 11.

Ru-Containing Magnetically Recoverable Catalysts: A Sustainable Pathway from Cellulose to Ethylene and Propylene Glycols.

ACS applied materials & interfaces

Oleg V Manaenkov, Joshua J Mann, Olga V Kislitza, Yaroslav Losovyj, Barry D Stein, David Gene Morgan, Maren Pink, Olga L Lependina, Zinaida B Shifrina, Valentina G Matveeva, Esther M Sulman, Lyudmila M Bronstein

Affiliations

  1. Department of Biotechnology and Chemistry, Tver State Technical University , Tver 170026, Russia.
  2. Department of Chemistry, Indiana University , Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States.
  3. Department of Biology, Indiana University , Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States.
  4. A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow 119991 Russia.
  5. Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, King Abdulaziz University , Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia.

PMID: 27484222 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b05096

Abstract

Biomass processing to value-added chemicals and biofuels received considerable attention due to the renewable nature of the precursors. Here, we report the development of Ru-containing magnetically recoverable catalysts for cellulose hydrogenolysis to low alcohols, ethylene glycol (EG) and propylene glycol (PG). The catalysts are synthesized by incorporation of magnetite nanoparticles (NPs) in mesoporous silica pores followed by formation of 2 nm Ru NPs. The latter are obtained by thermal decomposition of ruthenium acetylacetonate in the pores. The catalysts showed excellent activities and selectivities at 100% cellulose conversion, exceeding those for the commercial Ru/C. High selectivities as well as activities are attributed to the influence of Fe3O4 on the Ru(0)/Ru(4+) NPs. A facile synthetic protocol, easy magnetic separation, and stability of the catalyst performance after magnetic recovery make these catalysts promising for industrial applications.

Keywords: cellulose; hydrogenolysis; magnetically recoverable catalysts; nanoparticles; ruthenium

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