O-Th-A-18 A Systematic Study of Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metal Promotion of Alumina Supported Ruthenium for Levulinic Acid Hydrogenation to Gamma-Valerolactone

Thursday, June 18, 2015: 3:40 PM
Ballroom A (Lawrence Convention Center)
Shuo Cao, Christopher T. Williams, Shuguo Ma, John R. Monnier and John R. Regalbuto, University of South Carolina, USA.
This work reports the first systematic study of alkali promotion on Ru activity for hydrogenation of Levulinic Acid to gamma-valerolactone.

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