An In-Situ Self-regeneration Catalyst for the Production of Renewable Penta-1,3-diene

Ruilin Feng; Yanlong Qi; Shijun Liu; Long Cui; Quanquan Dai; Chenxi Bai

doi:10.1002/chem.202100613

An In-Situ Self-regeneration Catalyst for the Production of Renewable Penta-1,3-diene

Chemistry. 2021 Jul 2;27(37):9495-9498. doi: 10.1002/chem.202100613. Epub 2021 May 19.

Authors

Ruilin Feng^{1

2}, Yanlong Qi¹, Shijun Liu^{1

2}, Long Cui¹, Quanquan Dai¹, Chenxi Bai^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of High-Performance Synthetic Rubber and Its Composite Materials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Renmin Road, Changchun, 130022, P. R. China.
² Applied Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Jinzhai Road, Hefei, 230026, P. R. China.

PMID: 33877701
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202100613

Abstract

Catalyst deactivation is a problem of great concern for many heterogeneous reactions. Here, an urchin-like LaPO₄ catalyst was easily developed for pentane-2,3-diol dehydration; it has an impressive ability to restore the activity in situ by itself during the reaction, accounting for its high stability. This facilitates the efficient production of renewable penta-1,3-diene from pentane-2,3-dione via a novel approach, where penta-2,3-diol was obtained as an intermediate in 95 % yield under mild conditions.

Keywords: biobased chemicals; catalyst regeneration; pentadienes; sustainability.

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