Improved conversion of biomass-derived γ-valerolactone to butene over a new Nb-based catalyst

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We request 7 days on TOSCA to carry out inelastic neutron scattering (INS) study of a multifunctional catalyst (NbAlZSM-5) for the efficient cleavage of C-O bonds and of C-C bonds for the conversion of biomass-derived gamma-valerolactone (GVL) to butene. The proposed study will investigate the vibrational spectroscopy of the catalyst, adsorption of guest GVL molecules and any possible reaction intermediates on catalyst surface. In particular, this study aims to reveal the roles of surface Nb sites and Si-O(H)-Al groups in the binding to guest molecules and in the catalytic reactions. This recently-discovered multifunctional catalyst by our group exhibit extremely high activity and selectivity for the conversion of GVL to butenes at mild conditions with significant potential market value.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.99689092
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/99689092
Provenance
Creator Dr Xinchen Kang; Dr Svemir Rudic; Professor Sihai Yang; Dr Longfei LIN; Professor Stewart Parker; Dr Qingqing Mei; Mr MENGTIAN FAN
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-12-06T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-12-13T10:19:03Z