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Conversion and kinetics study of fructose-to-5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) using sulfonic and ionic liquid groups
1Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
Abstract:
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles functionalized with both sulfonic acid (HSO(3)) and ionic liquid (ILs) were synthesized and applied as effective and recyclable catalysts for generating 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) from fructose. For the first time a high HMF yield of 72.5% was achieved in DMSO systems under mild conditions (90 °C and 3 h). We further studied the kinetics of the fructose-to-HMF conversion and compared the rate constants, reaction orders, and activation energies for the systems with and without bi-functional MSN catalysts.
