Issue 6, 2008
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Green Chemistry

Hydrothermal conversion of carbohydrate biomass into formic acid at mild temperatures

Fangming Jin,*a   Jun Yun,a   Guangming Li,a   Ashushi Kishita,b   Kazuyuki Tohjib  and  Heiji Enomotob  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
E-mail: fmjin@mail.tongji.edu.cn

b Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Abstract

The production of formic acid or formate salts by hydrothermal oxidation of glucose, a model compound of carbohydrate biomass, was investigated in the presence and absence of alkali using a batch reactor with H2O2 oxidant. Results showed that glucose was converted into formate salts with an excellent yield of 75% at a mild temperature of 250 °C in the presence of alkali. The results should be helpful to facilitate studies for developing a new green process for the conversion of carbohydrate biomass into formic acid, which can be a potential intermediate for fuels, as well as other value-added products.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B802076K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
06 Feb 2008
Accepted
09 Apr 2008
First published
21 Apr 2008

Green Chem., 2008,10, 612-615

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Hydrothermal conversion of carbohydrate biomass into formic acid at mild temperatures

F. Jin, J. Yun, G. Li, A. Kishita, K. Tohji and H. Enomoto, Green Chem., 2008, 10, 612 DOI: 10.1039/B802076K

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