Chemicals from Renewables: Aerobic Oxidation of Furfural and Hydroxymethylfurfural over Gold Catalysts

作者：Esben Taarning, Inger S. Nielsen, Kresten Egeblad, Robert Madsen, Claus H. Christensen · 发表于：ChemSusChem · 年份：2007 · DOI：10.1002/cssc.200700033 · 被引用次数：316 · 研究领域：Catalysis for Biomass Conversion、Catalytic Processes in Materials Science、Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies

Aerobic exercise: The biomass-derived platform chemicals furfural and hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) are readily oxidized in methanol in the presence of oxygen and a supported gold nanoparticle catalyst to afford the corresponding methyl esters (see scheme). Thus, furfural was oxidized to methyl furoate under very mild conditions, and HMF was converted into furan-2,5-dimethylcarboxylate (FDMC), a potential polymer building block, with high yields.