Imperial College London
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Professor James Wilton-Ely

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 9718j.wilton-ely Website

 
 
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Location

 

601bMolecular Sciences Research HubWhite City Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Eminov:2016:10.1371/journal.pone.0163835,
author = {Eminov, S and Brandt, A and Wilton-Ely, JD and Hallett, JP},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0163835},
journal = {PLOS One},
title = {The Highly Selective and Near-Quantitative Conversion of Glucose to 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Using Ionic Liquids},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163835},
volume = {11},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - A number of ionic liquids have been shown to be excellent solvents for lignocellulosic biomass processing, and some of these are particularly effective in the production of the versatile chemical building block 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF). In this study, the production of HMF from the simple sugar glucose in ionic liquid media is discussed. Several aspects of the selective catalytic formation of HMF from glucose have been elucidated using metal halide salts in two distinct ionic liquids, 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride and 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogen sulfate as well as mixtures of these, revealing key features for accelerating the desired reaction and suppressing byproduct formation. The choice of ionic liquid anion is revealed to be of particular importance, with low HMF yields in the case of hydrogen sulfate-based salts, which are reported to be effective for HMF production from fructose. The most successful system investigated in this study led to almost quantitative conversion of glucose to HMF (90% in only 30 minutes using 7 mol% catalyst loading at 120°C) in a system which is selective for the desired product, has low energy intensity and is environmentally benign.
AU  - Eminov,S
AU  - Brandt,A
AU  - Wilton-Ely,JD
AU  - Hallett,JP
DO  - 10.1371/journal.pone.0163835
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 1932-6203
TI  - The Highly Selective and Near-Quantitative Conversion of Glucose to 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Using Ionic Liquids
T2  - PLOS One
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163835
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/41551
VL  - 11
ER  -
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