O-M-A-10 Production of Benzoic Acid from Biomass-Derived Furan and Methyl Acrylate Using Lewis-Acidic Zeolites

Monday, June 15, 2015: 2:30 PM
Ballroom A (Lawrence Convention Center)
Eyas Mahmoud1, Jingye Yu2, Raymond Gorte2 and Raul F. Lobo1, (1)University of Delaware, USA, (2)University of Pennsylvania, USA.
A selective two step-reaction sequence to convert furan into benzoic acid is demonstrated.  Lewis-acid containing zeolite beta was shown to catalyze the Diels-Alder reaction of furan and methyl acrylate.  The resulting product was dehydrated in binary mixtures of methanesulfonic acid and acetic anhydride to produce methyl benzoate in 96% selectivity.

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