Zhu, Jiaping ; Yao, Chaojian ; Maity, Ayan ; Xu, Jielai ; Zhan, Tong ; Liu, Weibing ; Sun, Mingtai ; Wang, Suhua ; Polshettiwar, Vivek ; Tan, Hua (2021) Nitrogen doped carbon spheres with wrinkled cages for the selective oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to 5-formyl-2-furancarboxylic acid Chemical Communications, 57 (16). pp. 2005-2008. ISSN 1359-7345
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC07856E
Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D0CC07856E
Abstract
Nitrogen doped carbon spheres with wrinkled cages (NCSWCs), which were used for the first time as metal-free catalysts, exhibited high catalytic activity and selectivity in the oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) to 5-formyl-2-furancarboxylic acid (FFCA) under base-free conditions using tert-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) as the oxidant. The mechanistic studies found that this reaction was catalyzed by the synergy between NCSWCs and TBHP. The density functional theory (DFT) calculations further suggested that the hydroperoxyl radicals from TBHP adsorbed on the carbon atoms adjacent to the graphitic N atoms are the active sites.
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