{"id":15254,"date":"2011-05-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20110519-06n"},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T22:00:00","slug":"conversion-of-glucose-to-5-hmf-over-solid-acid-catalyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/conversion-of-glucose-to-5-hmf-over-solid-acid-catalyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversion of glucose to 5-HMF over solid acid catalyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Researchers at the South China University of Technology report on the use of a Zr(H<sub>2<\/sub>PO<sub>4<\/sub>)<sub>2<\/sub> solid acid catalyst in an isobutanol-water (1.6:1\/V:V) two-phase system to convert glucose to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF), an important green platform chemical with wide applications in the production of fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics and liquid alkanes.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Although fructose can be converted to 5-HMF with high yield via acid-catalyzed dehydration, fructose is costly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With its low cost and wide supply, the conversion of glucose to HMF has attracted the interests of researchers. For gaining a high 5-HMF yield, the choice of catalysts is very important (Zhuang et al.).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zhuang et al. report in their study, published in the journal Advanced Materials Research, an optimized 5-HMF yield of 42.32% within 1.5 hours at 180 \u00b0C over Zr(H<sub>2<\/sub>PO<sub>4<\/sub>)<sub>2<\/sub>  with ratio of 1:1; glucose conversion was 94.83%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Researchers at the South China University of Technology report on the use of a Zr(H<sub>2<\/sub>PO<sub>4<\/sub>)<sub>2<\/sub> solid acid catalyst in an isobutanol-water (1.6:1\/V:V) two-phase system to<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[2663],"class_list":["post-15254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-south-china-university-of-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15254"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}