Imperial College London

Dr Roberto Rinaldi FRSC

Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Chemical Engineering

Reader in Applied Chemistry
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 1302r.rinaldi1 Website

 
 
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523ACE ExtensionSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Costa:2023:10.1016/j.catcom.2022.106577,
author = {Costa, MJF and Gonçalves, AAS and Rinaldi, R and Bradtmüller, H and Eckert, H and Ferreira, EB},
doi = {10.1016/j.catcom.2022.106577},
journal = {Catalysis Communications},
pages = {1--10},
title = {Highly porous niobium-containing silica glasses applied to the microwave-assisted conversion of fructose into HMF},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catcom.2022.106577},
volume = {174},
year = {2023}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - Metal dispersion is key for designing highly active and well-defined catalytic systems. Herein, to shed light on the effects of Nb dispersion on the conversion of fructose into HMF, highly porous silica glasses grafted with niobium oxide were prepared. Preliminary catalytic screening was done for the microwave-assisted conversion of fructose into 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) in a biphasic system. The highly porous silica glasses impregnated with niobium oxide presented HMF productivities about 10- to 20 times higher than the mesoporous NbOPO4 reference material. Intriguingly, humin formation correlates with HMF yield regardless of the catalyst employed, although metal dispersion influences the acidity profile.
AU - Costa,MJF
AU - Gonçalves,AAS
AU - Rinaldi,R
AU - Bradtmüller,H
AU - Eckert,H
AU - Ferreira,EB
DO - 10.1016/j.catcom.2022.106577
EP - 10
PY - 2023///
SN - 1566-7367
SP - 1
TI - Highly porous niobium-containing silica glasses applied to the microwave-assisted conversion of fructose into HMF
T2 - Catalysis Communications
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catcom.2022.106577
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1566736722001820?via%3Dihub
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/101735
VL - 174
ER -