Selective Hydrogenation of Biomass-Derived Furfural: Enhanced Catalytic Performance of Pd-Cu Alloy Nanoparticles in Porous Polymer

Ksenia E Salnikova; Yurii V Larichev; Esther M Sulman; Alexey V Bykov; Alexander I Sidorov; Galina N Demidenko; Mikhail G Sulman; Lyudmila M Bronstein; Valentina G Matveeva

doi:10.1002/cplu.202000383

Selective Hydrogenation of Biomass-Derived Furfural: Enhanced Catalytic Performance of Pd-Cu Alloy Nanoparticles in Porous Polymer

Chempluschem. 2020 Aug;85(8):1697-1703. doi: 10.1002/cplu.202000383. Epub 2020 Jul 14.

Authors

Ksenia E Salnikova^{1

2}, Yurii V Larichev^{3

4}, Esther M Sulman¹, Alexey V Bykov¹, Alexander I Sidorov¹, Galina N Demidenko¹, Mikhail G Sulman¹, Lyudmila M Bronstein^{5

6

7}, Valentina G Matveeva^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biotechnology and Chemistry, Tver State Technical University, A.Nikitin str., 22, 170026, Tver, Russia.
² Regional technological centre, Tver State University, Zhelyabova str., 33, 170100, Tver, Russia.
³ Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, 5 Academician Lavrentiev Avenue, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia.
⁴ Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogov Street, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia.
⁵ Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 E. Kirkwood Av., Bloomington, IN, 47408, USA.
⁶ A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, 28 Vavilov St., Moscow, 119991, Russia.
⁷ Faculty of Science Department of Physics, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia.

PMID: 32662952
DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202000383

Abstract

Here, the development of a new catalyst is reported for the selective furfural (FF) hydrogenation to furfuryl alcohol (FA) based on about 7 nm sized Pd-Cu alloy nanoparticles (NPs) formed in inexpensive, commercially available micro/mesoporous hypercrosslinked polystyrene (HPS). A comparison of the catalytic properties of as-synthesized and reduced (denoted "r") catalysts as well as Pd-Cu alloy and monometallic palladium NPs showed a considerable enhancement of the catalytic performance of Pd-Cu/HPS-r compared to other catalysts studied, resulting in about 100 % FF conversion, 95.2 % selectivity for FA and a TOF of 1209 h^-1 . This was attributed to the enrichment of the NP surface with copper atoms, disrupting the furan ring adsorption, and to the presence of both zerovalent and cationic palladium and copper species, resulting in optimal hydrogen and FF adsorption. These factors along with exceptional stability of the catalyst in ten consecutive catalytic cycles make it highly promising in practical applications.

Keywords: Pd−Cu alloys; furfural; hydrogenation; hypercrosslinked polystyrene; nanostructures.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't