Efficient production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural from fructose over CuAPO-5 molecular sieves synthesized using an
Yan Huang1,2,3, Pilan Zhang1, Hualei Hu1
1Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences 1219 Zhongguan West Road Ningbo 315201 China huhualei@nimte.ac.cn jzhang@nimte.ac.cn wanglei@nimte.ac.cn.
Abstract:
A group of CuAPO-5 molecular sieves with trace Cu were successfully synthesized via an ionothermal method and used for fructose dehydration to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) in [BMIM]Br ionic liquid. The 0.06-CuAPO-5 sample displayed excellent performance and a HMF yield of 93.8% was obtained, which could be ascribed to the balance between acid strength and mass transfer efficiency. This work demonstrates that the ionothermal synthesized CuAPO-5 molecular sieve was also a good candidate for the efficient production of HMF.
