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Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
Journal of Industrial and Environmental Chemistry| Volume: 3
Furfural as platform chemical - Recent advances
Christophe Len
PSL University, France
W
ith an increasingly severe outlook for depleting oil-based
resources, wood-based biomass and especially plant
waste rich in lignocellulosic feedstocks, appear to be the main
alternative to produce many kinds of platform molecules such
as furan derivatives. However, recent researches have shown
that other kinds of carbohydrates as alginate derivatives could
also be exploited as feedstocks for furfural production. As a
molecule platform chemical, furfural permits to produce a large
range of chemicals having different properties and utilities as
solvents, plastics, fuel additives. One important valorisation
route of furfural is the liquid phase catalytic hydrogenation.
Whereas molecular hydrogen is mostly used in industrial
hydrogenation processes, recent studies also showed that
alcohols can be used as reductants from which hydrides can
be transferred catalytically to furfural. These two strategies:
hydrogenation and transfer hydrogenation were developed in
batch as well as in continuous flow to produce value-added
chemicals such as 2-methylfuran. Our works explore the
catalytic behaviour in batch and continuous flow of mono- and
bimetallic metal catalysts (Cu, Pd, Pt, Ni) supported on various
types of materials (microporous, mesoporous). Methodology,
recycling, metal leaching will be discussed.
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:christophe.len@chimieparistech.psl.euJ Ind Environ Chem 2019, Volume 3
DOI: 10.4066/2591-7331-C1-009
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