P-We-156 High-value chemicals production from sugar-based biomass over Nb-containing mesoporous materials

Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Ontario Exhibit Hall (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Katarzyna Jagodzinska and Izabela Nowak, Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poznan, Poland
Dehydration reaction of glucose and fructose and oidation of these reagents with hydrogen peroxide was studied as a model reaction. The products of the reactions were studied using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and HPLC. Early experiments produced the expected sugar derivatives.

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