RT Journal Article
T1 The Role of Copper in the Hydrogenation of Furfural and Levulinic Acid
A1 García-Sancho, Cristina
A1 Mérida-Robles, Josefa María
A1 Cecilia-Buenestado, Juan Antonio
A1 Moreno-Tost, Ramón
A1 Maireles-Torres, Pedro Jesús
K1 Química Inogánica
AB Currently, there is a great interest in the development of sustainable and green technologies for production of biofuels and chemicals. In this sense, much attention is being paid to lignocellulosic biomass as feedstock, as alternative to fossil-based resources, inasmuch as its fractions can be transformed into value-added chemicals. Two important platform molecules derived from lignocellulosic sugars are furfural and levulinic acid, which can be transformed into a large spectrum of chemicals, by hydrogenation, oxidation, or condensation, with applications as solvents, agrochemicals, fragrances, pharmaceuticals, among others. However, in many cases, noble metal-based catalysts, scarce and expensive, are used. Therefore, an important effort is performed to search the most abundant, readily available, and cheap transition-metal-based catalysts. Among these, copper-based catalysts have been proposed, and the present review deals with the hydrogenation of furfural and levulinic acid, with Cu-based catalysts, into several relevant chemicals: furfuryl alcohol, 2-methylfuran, and cyclopentanone from FUR, and γ-valerolactone and 2-methyltetrahydrofuran from LA. Special emphasis has been placed on catalytic processes used (gas- and liquid-phase, catalytic transfer hydrogenation), under heterogeneous catalysis. Moreover, the effect of addition of other metal to Cu-based catalysts has been considered, as well as the issue related to catalyst stability in reusing studies.
PB IOAP-MDPI
YR 2023
FD 2023-01-26
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/26066
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/26066
LA eng
NO García-Sancho C, Mérida-Robles JM, Cecilia-Buenestado JA, Moreno-Tost R, Maireles-Torres PJ. The Role of Copper in the Hydrogenation of Furfural and Levulinic Acid. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2023; 24(3):2443. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24032443
NO Partial funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026