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Tantalum compounds as heterogeneous catalysts for saccharide dehydration to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural
Fengli Yang1, Qishun Liu, Min Yue
1Natural Products & Glyco-Biotechnology Research Group, Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Carbohydrates, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS, Dalian 116023, PR China.
Abstract:
A new solid acid, based on tantalum hydroxide, was used to catalyze saccharide dehydration into 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) with high catalytic activity and excellent stability in a water-2-butanol biphasic system. Furthermore, good results were also obtained from Jerusalem artichoke juice with the catalyst under the same conditions.

