Production of renewable long-chained cycloalkanes from biomass-derived furfurals and cyclic ketones.

ABSTRACT: Developing renewable long-chain cycloalkanes from lignocellulosic biomass is of significance because it offers huge resource storage, wide applications in aviation/diesel fuels and mitigation of CO₂ emissions. In this paper, cycloalkanes with carbon chain lengths of 13-18 were produced from biomass-derived furfural species (furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural) and cyclic ketones (cyclopentanone and cyclohexanone) via aldol condensation, followed by hydrogenation to saturate the C[double bond, length as m-dash]C and C[double bond, length as m-dash]O bonds, and hydrodeoxygenation to remove oxygen atoms. The aldol condensation of the furfural species with cyclic ketones was catalyzed by NaOH and the target condensation intermediates were obtained in yields of more than 90%

SUBMITTER: Liu Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9079845 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature