(617ba) Tuning Catalytic Activity for Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley (MPV) Reaction through Designing Catalytic Sites
AIChE Annual Meeting
2016
2016 AIChE Annual Meeting
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division
Poster Session: Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (CRE) Division
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Catalytic materials are essential to upgrading biomass into usable commodity chemicals and fuels, which requires increasing the hydrogen content and decreasing the oxygen content. An important reaction for catalytic upgrading is the Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reaction that sacrifices an inexpensive alcohol (e.g., isopropanol)Â to convert a ketone into an alcohol. This important reaction has recently been investigated widely with a number of different insights being revealed.[1â??4] Through using these insights, we have designed a novel catalytic material. In this poster presentation, we will present the synthesis, characterization, and catalytic activity of our novel catalytic material. The material has been characterized using a battery of standard methods, including advanced spectroscopy methods. Importantly, we find that the catalytic activity for hindered substrates is increased. Based on these insights, we suggest new formulations of the catalyst that could achieve higher catalytic activity.
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