Biomass Conversion with Metals: Hydrodeoxygenation/hydrogenation/hydrogenolysis III

Wednesday, June 17, 2015: 9:40 AM-12:00 PM
Ballroom A (Lawrence Convention Center)
Daniel Resasco, University of Oklahoma, USA and Karl O. Albrecht, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA.
9:40 AM
Relating the Structure of Pt-Re Bifunctional Catalysts to Performance in Polyol Hydrogenolysis
Derek D. Falcone1, John H. Hack1, Alexander Klyushin2, Axel Knop-Gericke2, Robert Schlögl2 and Robert J. Davis1, (1)University of Virginia, USA, (2)Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany.
10:00 AM
Selective Hydrodeoxygenation of Lignin-Derived Model Compounds to Aromatics at Ambient Pressure on Molybdenum Carbide Catalysts
Cha-Jung Chen, Wen-Sheng Lee and Aditya Bhan, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA.
10:20 AM
 Keynote 
Enhancing the Stability of Copper Chromite Catalysts for the Selective Hydrogenation of Furfural Via ALD Overcoating
Christopher L. Marshall1, Hongbo Zhang1, Yu Lei2, A. Jeremy Kropf1, Guanghui Zhang1, Jeffrey W. Elam1, Jeffrey T. Miller1, Fred Solberger3, Fabio H. Ribeiro3, Eric Stach4 and James A. Dumesic5, (1)Argonne National Laboratory, USA, (2)University of Alabama - Huntsville, USA, (3)Purdue University, USA, (4)Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, (5)University of Wisconsin Madison, USA.
11:00 AM
Selective Heterogeneous Catalytic Terminal C-C Bond Scission of C5-Carbohydrates
Frits van der Klis1, Linda Gootjes1, Jacco van Haveren1, Daan S. van Es1 and J.H. (Harry) Bitter2, (1)Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research, Netherlands, (2)Wageningen university, Netherlands.
11:20 AM
Deoxygenation on Ru Catalysts – Insights from DFT Modeling
Cheng-chau Chiu1,2, Alexander Genest2 and Notker Rösch1,2, (1)Technische Universität München, Germany, (2)Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore.
11:40 AM
Conversion of Lignin to Functionalized Aromatic Monomers over Pt/Alumina
S. David Jackson, Ashley McVeigh, Florent Bouxin and Michael Jarvis, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.
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