Abstract
Catalytic ring-opening dehydration of tetrahydrofuran (THF), itself a product of decarbonylation and reduction of biomass-derived furfural, yields 1,3-butadiene, an important monomer in rubbers and elastomers. It is demonstrated that dehydra-decyclization of THF with phosphorus-containing siliceous self-pillared pentasil (SPP) or MFI structure exhibits high selectivity to butadiene (85-99%) at both low (9%) and high (89%) conversion of THF. High selectivity to pentadiene and hexadiene was also obtained from 2-methyl-tetrahydrofuran and 2,5-dimethyl-tetrahydrofuran, respectively, with phosphorus-containing, all-silica zeolites.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 3732-3736 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 1 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We acknowledge support from the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award number DE-SC0001004.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 American Chemical Society.
Keywords
- Butadiene
- Dehydration
- Hexadiene
- Pentadiene
- Phosphorus
- Tetrahydrofuran
- Zeolite