Hydrogenation of carboxylic acids, esters, and related compounds over heterogeneous catalysts: a step toward sustainable and carbon-neutral processes

R Qu, K Junge, M Beller - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The catalytic hydrogenation of esters and carboxylic acids represents a fundamental and
important class of organic transformations, which is widely applied in energy, environmental …

Converting Waste Plastic to Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers

M Soltani, JE Rorrer - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The accumulation of waste plastics in landfills and the environment, as well as the
contribution of plastics manufacturing to global warming, call for the development of new …

Ester Reduction with H2 on Bifunctional Metal‐Acid Catalysts: Implications of Metal Identity on Rates and Selectivities

CE Berdugo‐Díaz, MT Manetsch… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Esters reduce to form ethers and alcohols on contact with metal nanoparticles supported on
Brønsted acidic faujasite (M‐FAU) that cleave C− O bonds by hydrogenation and …

Pathways for Reactions of Esters with H2 over Supported Pd Catalysts: Elementary Steps, Site Requirements, and Particle Size Effects

CE Berdugo-Díaz, YS Yun, MT Manetsch, J Luo… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The direct reduction of esters to ethers offers an efficient pathway to ethers from renewable
intermediates. This chemistry previously required homogeneous catalysts and utilized costly …

Catalytic Reduction of Esters over Zirconia-Supported Metal Catalysts

JE Chavarrio, K Kirkendall-Jones, RG Dastidar… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Esters are often produced as unwanted byproducts during the catalytic upgrading of ethanol
to diesel fuel precursors through Guerbet coupling. Removal of esters from the product …

Ester reduction on bifunctional metal-acid catalysts: Effect of metal to acid ratio

CE Berdugo-Díaz, MT Manetsch, J Lee, YS Yun… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ethers are highly desirable commodities in food, cosmetics, rubber, and coatings due to their
low chemical reactivity, stability, and miscibility with other organic solvents. The direct …

Production of drop-in biodiesel blendstocks via competitive acid-catalyzed dehydration reactions using ethanol oligomerization products

E Canales, SC Hower, DP Li, A Tambe… - Sustainable Energy & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Ethanol can be converted into diesel fuel ethers using a three-step catalytic approach that
involves ethanol oligomerization to larger alcohols, hydrogenolysis of the esters followed by …

Effect of the reorganization of acid sites induced by metal species on TiO2 supports on the conversion of furfural to acetals and ethers

Q Fang, H Du, X Liu, Y Ding - Catalysis Today, 2024 - Elsevier
For the catalytic hydrogenation of furfural (FFR) over supported metal catalysts, acetals and
ethers were often observed as by-products when alcohols were used as solvents. The …

Aqueous-phase Reforming of Glycerol using Cu-Ni Bimetal Catalyst Supported over Coconut Shell Activated Carbon

I Yakub, KAM Said, MAM Amin… - Journal of Advanced …, 2024 - semarakilmu.com.my
The increasing generation of glycerol as a waste from biodiesel production calls for its
various consumptions, especially in producing industrial chemicals. However, the focus of …

Evaluation of the hydrogen storage system liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC)

F d'Ambra - 2023 - theses.hal.science
Hydrogen is an excellent energy vector to compensate for the intermittence of renewable
energies, if it is stored and transported safely at low cost. However, hydrogen possesses a …