Biomass Conversion with Zeolites II

Wednesday, June 17, 2015: 3:40 PM-5:20 PM
Ballroom A (Lawrence Convention Center)
Aditya Bhan, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA and Bingjun Xu, University of Delaware, USA.
3:40 PM
Hf-Beta As an Effective Solid Lewis Acid Catalyst for the Coupled Transfer Hydrogenation and Etherification of HMF with Alcohols
Jennifer Lewis, Stijn Van de Vyver, Anthony Crisci, William Gunther, Vladimir Michaelis, Robert Griffin and Yuriy Román-Leshkov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
4:00 PM
Zeolites in Carbohydrate-Based Biomass Conversion -- Chemistry at the Solid/Liquid Interface
Long Qi1, Anna Katharina Beine1, Jerry Hu2 and Susannah L. Scott3, (1)University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, (2)Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, USA, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, USA.
4:20 PM
Solvent Effects in the Catalytic Conversion of Fructose to Lactic Acid
Christian G. Rivera-Goyco, Nitza Padilla Fuentes, Oscar Oyola-Rivera, Yomaira J. Pagan-Torres and Nelson Cardona-Martínez, University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez, PR.
4:40 PM
Zn Lewis Acid Sites in Zincosilicate CIT-6
Marat Orazov, Mark Deimund and Mark E. Davis, California Institute of Technology, USA.
5:00 PM
Beyond Ketonization: Selective Conversion of Carboxylic Acids to Olefins over Balanced Lewis Acid-Base Pairs
Junming Sun1, Colin Smith2, Rebecca A. L. Baylon1, Changjun Liu1 and Yong Wang2, (1)Washington State University, USA, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA.
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