Liu, Yuan published the artcilePreparation of carbonyl precursors for long-chain oxygenated fuels from cellulose ethanolysis catalyzed by metal oxides, Recommanded Product: Ethyl 4-oxopentanoate, the main research area is metal oxide carbonyl precursor oxygenated fuel cellulose ethanolysis.
Long-chain oxygenated liquid fuels have similar physicochem. properties with diesel fuel, and its oxygen can promote combustion and reduce PM2.5. An approach for the preparation of the precursor from lignocellulose suitable for C-C coupling is the key problem to be solved in the production of long-chain oxygenated fuels. In this work, cellulose, as a main component in biomass, was directly alcoholyzed to carbonyl compounds with α-H catalyzed by three typical metal oxides (CaO, MgO and ZnO). The results showed that high temperature was favorable for the conversion of cellulose, but a large number of side products, namely levoglucosan and ethyl-α-D-pyran glucoside, have been detected in liquefied products. These byproducts could be transformed into target precursors with α-H over CaO or ZnO with 0.5 mmol at 320°C in ethanol solvent. Addnl., side reactions of ethanol at elevated temperature could be inhibited with ZnO in water-ethanol co-solvent and the byproducts from ethanol dehydration, including 1,1-diethoxyethane, 2-ethoxyethanol, dropped significantly with an increase in carbonyl compounds Noticeably, compared with pure ethanol, the yield of carbonyl compounds in liquid products increased obviously to 47.4% when the volume ratio of water to ethanol was 3: 10.
Fuel Processing Technology published new progress about Biofuels. 539-88-8 belongs to class esters-buliding-blocks, name is Ethyl 4-oxopentanoate, and the molecular formula is C7H12O3, Recommanded Product: Ethyl 4-oxopentanoate.
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