The shortage of resources and the destruction of the environment have caused serious resource and environmental problems shared by all countries around the world. As a ubiquitous renewable resource, biomass has great ...The shortage of resources and the destruction of the environment have caused serious resource and environmental problems shared by all countries around the world. As a ubiquitous renewable resource, biomass has great prospects for replacing fossil energy and attracted attention from the society. The use of catalytic approach to transform biomass into high-value chemicals is an effective way to use biomass efficiently. In this work, Nisupported catalysts has been developed for the selective cleavage of C–O bonds in lignin model compounds with 2-propanol as the hydrogen source solvent. Among these catalysts, it was indicated that zirconium phosphate(Zr P)-supported Ni catalysts were highly efficient and recyclable for alkyl-aryl ether(α-O-4 and β-O-4) cleavage in lignin model compounds. The further investigation demonstrated that the transfer hydrogenolysis of the C–O bond is highly selective, which afforded phenols and aromatics as dominant products without the products arising from hydrogenation of aromatic rings. Through a series of characterization of the catalyst, it was demonstrated that the medium strong acid sites of the Zr P support promoted the cleavage of alkyl-aryl ethers(α-O-4 and β-O-4),and Br?nsted acid sites favored for achieving high selectivity toward C–O bond cleavage. Additionally, Ni(0) sites on the Zr P catalysts were responsible for the catalytic transfer hydrogenolysis.展开更多
基金support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21773061,21978095)the Open Research Fund of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes。
文摘The shortage of resources and the destruction of the environment have caused serious resource and environmental problems shared by all countries around the world. As a ubiquitous renewable resource, biomass has great prospects for replacing fossil energy and attracted attention from the society. The use of catalytic approach to transform biomass into high-value chemicals is an effective way to use biomass efficiently. In this work, Nisupported catalysts has been developed for the selective cleavage of C–O bonds in lignin model compounds with 2-propanol as the hydrogen source solvent. Among these catalysts, it was indicated that zirconium phosphate(Zr P)-supported Ni catalysts were highly efficient and recyclable for alkyl-aryl ether(α-O-4 and β-O-4) cleavage in lignin model compounds. The further investigation demonstrated that the transfer hydrogenolysis of the C–O bond is highly selective, which afforded phenols and aromatics as dominant products without the products arising from hydrogenation of aromatic rings. Through a series of characterization of the catalyst, it was demonstrated that the medium strong acid sites of the Zr P support promoted the cleavage of alkyl-aryl ethers(α-O-4 and β-O-4),and Br?nsted acid sites favored for achieving high selectivity toward C–O bond cleavage. Additionally, Ni(0) sites on the Zr P catalysts were responsible for the catalytic transfer hydrogenolysis.
