623-30-3Relevant articles and documents
Study of the oxidative esterification of furfural catalyzed by Au25(glutathione)18 nanocluster deposited on zirconia
Shahin, Zahraa,Rataboul, Franck,Demessence, Aude
, (2020/11/24)
Au/ZrO2 catalyst prepared from Au25(SG)18 nanoclusters (SG stands for glutathione) deposited on ZrO2 has shown to be an efficient system for the oxidative esterification of furfural with methanol. The influence of the supported nanoclusters was studied and showed that partial calcination of the supported nanoclusters at 300 °C was sufficient for a quantitative formation of methyl-2-furoate even in the absence of a base. In the presence of 0.27 mol% of Au, initial activities up to 250 h?1 were obtained at 100 °C under 6 bar of O2. The reactivity was extended to the oxidative esterification of furfuryl alcohol and the formation of various products and intermediates was discussed.
Enantioselective Aldol Addition of Acetaldehyde to Aromatic Aldehydes Catalyzed by Proline-Based Carboligases
Biewenga, Lieuwe,Charnock, Simon J.,Guo, Chao,Poelarends, Gerrit J.,Saifuddin, Mohammad,Saravanan, Thangavelu
, p. 2522 - 2527 (2020/03/11)
Aromatic β-hydroxyaldehydes, 1,3-diols, and α,β-unsaturated aldehydes are valuable precursors to biologically active natural products and drug molecules. Herein we report the biocatalytic aldol condensation of acetaldehyde with various aromatic aldehydes to give a number of aromatic α,β-unsaturated aldehydes using a previously engineered variant of 4-oxalocrotonate tautomerase [4-OT(M45T/F50A)] as carboligase. Moreover, an efficient one-pot two-step chemoenzymatic route toward chiral aromatic 1,3-diols has been developed. This one-pot chemoenzymatic strategy successfully combined a highly enantioselective aldol addition step catalyzed by a proline-based carboligase [4-OT(M45T/F50A) or TAUT015] with a chemical reduction step to convert enzymatically prepared aromatic β-hydroxyaldehydes into the corresponding 1,3-diols with high optical purity (e.r. up to >99:1) and in good isolated yield (51-92%). These developed (chemo)enzymatic methodologies offer alternative synthetic choices to prepare a variety of important drug precursors.
Versatile catalysis of iron: Tunable and selective transformation of biomass-derived furfural in aliphatic alcohol
Zhang, Zhenya,Tong, Xinli,Zhang, Haigang,Li, Yongdan
, p. 3092 - 3100 (2018/07/13)
An iron-catalyzed efficient valorization of biomass-derived furfural (FUR) in aliphatic alcohols is developed in which product selectivity can be simply regulated by varying the gas atmosphere. In the presence of molecular oxygen, there is oxidative condensation of FUR with ethanol, and the obtained product is furan-2-acrolein in a "FUR-ethanol-O2" system. Under suitable conditions, the conversion of FUR and selectivity of furan-2-acrolein are 84.2% and 82.7%, respectively. In the presence of H2, the selective hydrogenation of FUR is achieved, and the main product is furfuryl alcohol in a "FUR-ethanol-H2" system. Under optimal conditions, a 99.9% conversion of FUR and 93.6% selectivity of furfuryl alcohol are attained. This provides an economic, green and sustainable method for the utilization of biomass-based platform compounds in the chemical industry.