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Efficacy of clay catalysts for the dehydration of fructose to 5-hydroxymethyl furfural in biphasic medium

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5-Hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF) is one of the important platform chemical obtained from C6 sugars derived from biomass. The efficiency of montmorillonite clay catalysts (K-10, K-20, K-30, and Al pillared clay) has been systematically explored for the synthesis of HMF through dehydration of fructose in a biphasic solvent system. The catalysts were characterized by XRD, N2 sorption, 27Al MAS NMR, 29Si NMR and FT-IR of chemisorbed pyridine. Acid treated K-10 catalyst was found to be the best among the clay catalysts tested. Various reaction parameters such as reaction temperature, catalyst content, solvent were optimized for achieving better yield of HMF. Under optimized reaction conditions, K-10 catalyst affords 80 mol% fructose conversion with HMF yield of 61 mol%. Insight into the type of acid sites essential for such cascade reactions has been furnished. Utilization of clay catalysts for HMF production will be beneficial to improve overall economics for the production of platform chemicals like HMF from biomass-derived raw materials.

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Nishita Lucas acknowledges University Grant Commission, India for providing D.S. Kothari postdoctoral fellowship.

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  1. Catalysis & Inorganic Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune, 411008, India

    Nishita Lucas, Atul S. Nagpure, Lakshmiprasad Gurrala, Pranjal Gogoi & Satyanarayana Chilukuri

  2. Department of Chemistry, S. P. Pune University, Pune, 411007, India

    Nishita Lucas

  3. Department of Chemistry, Rashtrapita Mahatma Gandhi Arts & Science College, Nagbhid, Chandrapur, Maharashtra, 441205, India

    Atul S. Nagpure

  4. Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600036, India

    Lakshmiprasad Gurrala

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Lucas, N., Nagpure, A.S., Gurrala, L. et al. Efficacy of clay catalysts for the dehydration of fructose to 5-hydroxymethyl furfural in biphasic medium. J Porous Mater 27, 1691–1700 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10934-020-00943-8

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