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One-pot hydrolytic hydrogenation of carbohydrates to hexitols catalyzed by Ru loaded P and Si-containing hierarchical porous biochars with excellent catalytic efficiency

Authors: Shuainan Chen, Feng Mao, Shimin Tang, Zheng Yi, Huanhuan Zhang, Jialuo She, Bo Yang, Chao Zhang, Yachun Liu, Zaihui Fu

Published in: Cellulose | Issue 11/2022

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The one-pot hydrolytic hydrogenation of carbohydrates to sugar alcohols is one of the important value-added transformations of biomass, but the hydrolysis efficiency of carbohydrates in this one-pot conversion is still limited by the high cleavage energy of their β-1,4-glycosidic bonds and the concomitant serious side-reactions. Therefore, it is necessary to develop the new acidic carriers to improve the key first-step hydrolysis. This paper discloses that a forestry processing waste bamboo powder can be converted into the P and Si-containing porous biochar (PSBC) via inserting silica sol, impregnating concentrated phosphoric acid (H₃PO₄) and heating carbonization. Due to the improved porosity and strong acidity of PSBC and its affinity to β-1,4-glycosidic bonds, this new acid carrier exhibits an outstanding catalysis performance for the hydrolysis of cellulose, cellobiose, especially sucrose and inulin, affording ca. 76.2% glucose yield in cellulose hydrolysis at 150 °C. More importantly, PSBC can efficiently and uniformly load Ru nanometer particles (average size of 1.5 nm) to fabricate 1%Ru/PSBC as an excellent bifunctional catalyst for the one-pot conversion of these carbohydrates to hexitols, affording ca. 85.2% hexitols with 51.7 h⁻¹ turnover frequency in the one-pot conversion of cellulose under 150 °C and 3 MPa H₂ pressure. This work not only provides an effective strategy for the preparation of biomass-derived bifunctional catalysts, but also it opens up new voyages for the development of efficient bio-refining.

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Ru-loaded P and Si-containing porous biochar (1% Ru/PSBC) is an excellent bifunctional catalyst for the hydrolytic hydrogenation of carbohydrates under relatively mild conditions, affording ca. 85.2% hexitols with 51.7 h⁻¹ TOF in the one-pot conversion of cellulose.

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Title: One-pot hydrolytic hydrogenation of carbohydrates to hexitols catalyzed by Ru loaded P and Si-containing hierarchical porous biochars with excellent catalytic efficiency
Authors: Shuainan Chen
Feng Mao
Shimin Tang
Zheng Yi
Huanhuan Zhang
Jialuo She
Bo Yang
Chao Zhang
Yachun Liu
Zaihui Fu
Publication date: 07-06-2022
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Cellulose / Issue 11/2022
Print ISSN: 0969-0239
Electronic ISSN: 1572-882X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-022-04650-2

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