Porous nitrogen-enriched carbonaceous material from marine waste: chitosan-derived carbon nitride catalyst for aerial oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid

Sanny Verma; Mallikarjuna N Nadagouda; Rajender S Varma

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-14016-5

Porous nitrogen-enriched carbonaceous material from marine waste: chitosan-derived carbon nitride catalyst for aerial oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid

Sci Rep. 2017 Oct 19;7(1):13596. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-14016-5.

Authors

Sanny Verma¹, Mallikarjuna N Nadagouda², Rajender S Varma³

Affiliations

¹ Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, P. O. Box 117, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA.
² Water Systems Division, Water Resources Recovery Branch, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, MS 443, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45268, USA.
³ Water Systems Division, Water Resources Recovery Branch, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, MS 443, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45268, USA. varma.rajender@epa.gov.

Abstract

Chitosan-derived, porous nitrogen-enriched carbonaceous carbon nitride catalyst (PCN_x) has been synthesized from marine waste and its use demonstrated in a metal-free heterogeneous selective oxidation of 5-hydroxymethyl-furfural (HMF) to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) using aerial oxygen under mild reaction conditions.

Publication types

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