Design of Solid Acid Catalysts for Diels Alder Cycloaddition of Dimethylfuran to Produce p-Xylene

Jae, Jungho

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Ballroom B (Lawrence Convention Center)

Jungho Jae¹, Yanuar Philip Wijaya¹, Jeong-Myeong Ha² and Dong Jin Suh², (1)Korea Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, (2)Korea University of Science and Technology, South Korea.

Diels Alder cycloaddition of dimethylfuran and ethylene to produce p-xylene was studied with different types of solid acid catalysts to investigate the structure-activity relationships. The p-xylene yield was highest with a silica-alumina aerogel catalyst with Si/Al = 1 and was a function of the Bronsted acid site concentrations of the catalysts.

Extended Abstracts:

NACS abstract-Jae-new 1234.pdf (141.4KB) - Extended Abstract

P-Tu-B-210 Design of Solid Acid Catalysts for Diels Alder Cycloaddition of Dimethylfuran to Produce p-Xylene