Towards One-Pot Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Platform Molecules in Ionic Liquid Media

Sathitsuksanoh, Noppadon

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Ballroom B (Lawrence Convention Center)

Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh^1,2, Teerawit Prasomsri³, Ning Sun^1,2, Seema Singh^2,4, Anthe George^2,4 and Blake Simmons^2,4, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA, (2)Joint BioEnergy Institute, USA, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, (4)Sandia National Laboratory, USA.

Exploiting the solvation of lignocellulosic biomass in ionic liquid media enables production of HMF from sugarcane bagasse in one-pot. ~70 mol% HMF was achieved by a combination of Brønsted and Lewis acid catalyzed cellulose hydrolysis to glucose and dehydraton of glucose to HMF.

Extended Abstracts:

NAM_2015_tik.pdf (47.5KB) - Extended Abstract

P-W-B-163 Towards One-Pot Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Platform Molecules in Ionic Liquid Media