Impact of Support Oxide Acidity in Pt-Catalyzed HMF Hydrogenation in Alcoholic Medium

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• 作者：Nhu Ly ; Katharina Al-Shamery ; Carine E. Chan-Thaw ; Laura Prati…
• 关键词：Modified silica oxides ; Intrinsic and Effective acidity ; Pt nanoparticles ; HMF hydrogenation
• 刊名：Catalysis Letters
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：147
• 期：2
• 页码：345-359
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• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Catalysis; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Organometallic Chemistry; Physical Chemistry;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1572-879X
• 卷排序：147

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AbstractSilica and three mixed silica oxides (silica–alumina, silica–niobia, and silica–zirconia) with nominally 5 wt% of the added element (Al, Nb and Zr) were prepared and used as supports for dispersing monometallic Pt-nanoparticles. The presence of the second oxide component on the silica surface influenced some properties of the final samples, like surface area and acidity. The samples acidity was measured in a recirculation adsorption line with 2-phenylethylamine probe, by performing the titrations both in cyclohexane and in methanol to gather the intrinsic and effective acidity, respectively. The acid site density of silica–alumina was the highest compared with the other oxides; in general, an important decrease of acid sites density was determined in methanol. The order of the effective acidity in methanol was different from that determined in cyclohexane only for silica–zirconia and silica–niobia, confirming the peculiar acidity of Nb-oxide compounds in polar liquids: Colloidal spherical platinum nanoparticles were synthesized and then deposited (1 wt%) on the oxide supports. The obtained metallic nanophases were studied in the reduction of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) to valuable chemicals such as dimethylfuran, dimethyltetrahydro-furan, 2-hexanol. In particular, this study focused on the impact of the acidity of the oxide supports on reaction selectivity when 2-butanol is used as solvent. When Pt is not present, Nb-doped silica is the most effective catalyst to di-hydroxymethyl furan diether (DHMFDE) derived from Meerwein–Ponndorf–Verley reaction, maintaining its Lewis character also in protic medium. In the presence of Pt, Nb-doped silica, however, presents the higher selectivity to hydrogenolysis products, 5-methyl furan (5-MF).