Selective oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural into 2,5-diformylfuran over VPO catalysts under atmospheric pressure

Jinhua Lai; Kai Liu; Shuolin Zhou; Du Zhang; Xianxiang Liu; Qiong Xu; Dulin Yin

doi:10.1039/c9ra02213a

Selective oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural into 2,5-diformylfuran over VPO catalysts under atmospheric pressure

RSC Adv. 2019 May 7;9(25):14242-14246. doi: 10.1039/c9ra02213a.

Authors

Jinhua Lai¹, Kai Liu¹, Shuolin Zhou^{1

2}, Du Zhang¹, Xianxiang Liu¹, Qiong Xu¹, Dulin Yin¹

Affiliations

¹ National & Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for New Petro-chemical Materials and Fine Utilization of Resources, Key Laboratory of the Assembly and Application of Organic Functional Molecules of Hunan Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Normal University Changsha 410081 PR China lxx@hunnu.edu.cn +86 731 88872531 +86 731 88872576.
² Junior Education Department, Changsha Normal University Changsha 410100 PR China.

Abstract

Vanadium phosphate oxide (VPO) heterogeneous catalysts with different V/P molar ratios were prepared and used for selective oxidation of biomass-derived 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) to produce 2,5-diformylfuran (DFF) in the liquid phase. It was found that the VPO catalyst with V/P molar ratio 0.25 exhibited the best catalytic performance. Then the VPO catalyst was utilized to catalyze the oxidation of HMF in a batch reactor under different conditions, in terms of type of solvent (water and organic), reaction time and temperature. A high DFF yield of 83.6% with HMF conversion of 100% was obtained under atmospheric pressure.