Biomass-Derived Butadiene by Dehydra-Decyclization of Tetrahydrofuran

Omar A. Abdelrahman; Dae Sung Park; Katherine P. Vinter; Charles S. Spanjers; Limin Ren; Hong Je Cho; Dionisios G. Vlachos; Wei Fan; Michael Tsapatsis; Paul J. Dauenhauer

doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b00745

Biomass-Derived Butadiene by Dehydra-Decyclization of Tetrahydrofuran

Omar A. Abdelrahman, Dae Sung Park, Katherine P. Vinter, Charles S. Spanjers, Limin Ren, Hong Je Cho, Dionisios G. Vlachos, Wei Fan, Michael Tsapatsis, Paul J. Dauenhauer

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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)
Pages (from-to)	3732-3736
Number of pages	5
Journal	ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering
Volume	5
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b00745
State	Published - May 1 2017

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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.

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© 2017 American Chemical Society.

Keywords

Butadiene
Dehydration
Hexadiene
Pentadiene
Phosphorus
Tetrahydrofuran
Zeolite

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Biomass-Derived Butadiene by Dehydra-Decyclization of Tetrahydrofuran. / Abdelrahman, Omar A.; Park, Dae Sung; Vinter, Katherine P.; Spanjers, Charles S.; Ren, Limin; Cho, Hong Je; Vlachos, Dionisios G.; Fan, Wei; Tsapatsis, Michael ; Dauenhauer, Paul J.

In: ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 5, 01.05.2017, p. 3732-3736.

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