Promoted electrocatalytic hydrogenation of furfural in a bi-phasic system

Mei Jiang; Jingwen Tan; Yizhong Chen; Wenbiao Zhang; Peng Chen; Yi Tang; Qingsheng Gao

doi:10.1039/d3cc00051f

Promoted electrocatalytic hydrogenation of furfural in a bi-phasic system

Chem Commun (Camb). 2023 Mar 9;59(21):3103-3106. doi: 10.1039/d3cc00051f.

Authors

Mei Jiang¹, Jingwen Tan¹, Yizhong Chen¹, Wenbiao Zhang^{1

2}, Peng Chen¹, Yi Tang², Qingsheng Gao¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Chemistry and Materials Science and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Supramolecular Coordination Materials and Applications, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, P. R. China. tqsgao@jnu.edu.cn.
² Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.

PMID: 36808426
DOI: 10.1039/d3cc00051f

Abstract

The promoted electrocatalytic hydrogenation of biomass-derived furfural to 2-methylfuran is for the first time identified in a water/oil bi-phasic system, in which the oil phase can quickly separate hydrophobic products from the electrode/electrolyte interfaces, resulting in a beneficial equilibrium toward hydrodeoxygenation.