scholarly journals Catalytic conversion of methanol/ethanol to isobutanol – a highly selective route to an advanced biofuel

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (29) ◽  
pp. 5202-5204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Wingad ◽  
Emilie J. E. Bergström ◽  
Matthew Everett ◽  
Katy J. Pellow ◽  
Duncan F. Wass

Catalysts based on ruthenium diphosphine complexes convert methanol/ethanol mixtures to the advanced biofuel isobutanol, with extremely high selectivity (>99%) at good (>75%) conversion via a Guerbet-type mechanism.

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 2426-2435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lujiang Xu ◽  
Zheng Han ◽  
Qian Yao ◽  
Jin Deng ◽  
Ying Zhang ◽  
...  

Thermo-catalytic conversion of renewable glycerol with ammonia over HZSM-5 for producing pyridines with high yield and high selectivity.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 975-979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinkun Lv ◽  
Zeming Rong ◽  
Liming Sun ◽  
Chengyun Liu ◽  
An-Hui Lu ◽  
...  

1,4-pentanediol or monohydric alcohol were achieved with high selectivity from levulinic acid under relatively mild conditions using nanoporous Ru.


2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 2973-2980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucília S. Ribeiro ◽  
José J. M. Órfão ◽  
Manuel Fernando R. Pereira

Promising progress has been made towards the catalytic conversion of cellulose into sorbitol with high selectivity by an environmentally friendly process.


Catalysts ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weibo Wu ◽  
Yan Li ◽  
Hu Li ◽  
Wenfeng Zhao ◽  
Song Yang

2013 ◽  
Vol 125 (34) ◽  
pp. 9175-9178 ◽  
Author(s):  
George R. M. Dowson ◽  
Mairi F. Haddow ◽  
Jason Lee ◽  
Richard L. Wingad ◽  
Duncan F. Wass

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenping Cai ◽  
Rujia Chen ◽  
Hao Zhang ◽  
Fukun Li ◽  
Jinxing Long ◽  
...  

Conversion of lignocellulose into a value-added chemical with high selectivity is of great significance but a big challenge due to the structural diversities of biomass components. Here, we reported an...


2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (34) ◽  
pp. 9005-9008 ◽  
Author(s):  
George R. M. Dowson ◽  
Mairi F. Haddow ◽  
Jason Lee ◽  
Richard L. Wingad ◽  
Duncan F. Wass

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (21) ◽  
pp. 8710-8717
Author(s):  
André L. D. Lima ◽  
Humberto V. Fajardo ◽  
André E. Nogueira ◽  
Márcio C. Pereira ◽  
Luiz C. A. Oliveira ◽  
...  

Nb-peroxo@iron oxides show high selectivity and activity in aniline conversion to azoxybenzene.


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