Metal chlorides in ionic liquid solvents convert sugars to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural

Science

Volumn 316, Issue 5831, 2007, Pages 1597-1600

  Zhao, Haibo ^a   Holladay, Johnathan E ^a   Brown, Heather ^a   Zhang, Z Conrad ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYMETHYLFURFURAL; CARBOHYDRATE; CHROMIUM CHLORIDE; FRUCTOSE; HALIDE; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; IONIC LIQUID; LEVULINIC ACID; METAL DERIVATIVE;

BIOMASS; CATALYSIS; CHLORIDE; ETHER; ORGANIC SALT; PETROLEUM; REPLACEMENT; SOLVENT; YIELD;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

EID: 34250811496     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1141199     Document Type: Article

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26. This work was supported by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a multiprogram national laboratory operated by Battelle for the U.S. DOE under contract no. DE-AC06-76RL01830. Part of the research described in this paper was performed at the Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory, a national scientific user facility located at PNNL. We thank A. Appel for running the NMR experiments.