A smart use of biomass derivatives to template an ad hoc hierarchical SAPO-5 acid catalyst

Francesco Mariatti; Ivana Miletto; Geo Paul; Leonardo Marchese; Silvia Tabasso; Maela Manzoli; Giancarlo Cravotto; Enrica Gianotti

doi:10.1039/d0ra06353c

A smart use of biomass derivatives to template an ad hoc hierarchical SAPO-5 acid catalyst

RSC Adv. 2020 Oct 20;10(63):38578-38582. doi: 10.1039/d0ra06353c. eCollection 2020 Oct 15.

Authors

Francesco Mariatti¹, Ivana Miletto², Geo Paul², Leonardo Marchese², Silvia Tabasso³, Maela Manzoli¹, Giancarlo Cravotto¹, Enrica Gianotti²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Drug Science and Technology, Università degli Studi di Torino V. Pietro Giuria 9 10125 Torino Italy.
² Department of Science and Technological Innovation, Università del Piemonte Orientale V. Teresa Michel 11 15121 Alessandria Italy enrica.gianotti@uniupo.it.
³ Department of Chemistry, Università degli Studi di Torino V. Pietro Giuria 7 10125 Torino Italy.

Abstract

A smart design of hierarchical SAPO-5 acid catalyst using biomass derived monosaccharides as sustainable and low-cost mesoporogens has been developed. The hierarchical SAPO-5 was characterized by several physico-chemical techniques to elucidate structure-properties relationships and was tested as a catalyst in the MW-assisted glucose transformation in 5-HMF using γ-valerolactone (GVL) as green solvent.