Materials (Jan 2020)

H<sub>3</sub>PMo<sub>12</sub>O<sub>40</sub> Immobilized on Amine Functionalized SBA-15 as a Catalyst for Aldose Epimerization

  • Hui Wang,
  • Meiyin Wang,
  • Jining Shang,
  • Yuanhang Ren,
  • Bin Yue,
  • Heyong He

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13030507
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 3
p. 507

Abstract

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In this work various amount of phosphomolybdic acid (PMo) were immobilized on amine functionalized SBA-15 and used as heterogeneous catalysts in the epimerization of glucose in aqueous solution. 13.3PMo/NH2-SBA-15 exhibited the best catalytic performance with a glucose conversion of 34.8% and mannose selectivity of 85.6% within two hours at 120 °C. The activation energy of 80.1 ± 0.1 kJ·mol−1 was lower than that of 96 kJ·mol−1 over the homogeneous H3PMo12O40 catalyst. The catalytic activities of 13.3PMo/NH2-SBA-15 for the transformation of some other aldoses including mannose, arabinose and xylose were also investigated.

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