Issue 19, 2023

Highly efficient oxidation of ethyl lactate to ethyl pyruvate with molecular oxygen over VxOy/SBA-15 catalysts

Abstract

The oxidation of biomass-derived alkyl lactate to alkyl pyruvate over a solid catalyst is a promising way to produce high-value chemicals. In the present work, a series of VxOy/SBA-15 catalysts of varying vanadium loading were prepared and employed for the oxidation of ethyl lactate (EL) to ethyl pyruvate (EP) in the presence of molecular oxygen. These catalysts were characterized in detail by ICP, XRD, N2 physisorption, FTIR, SEM, TEM, XPS, O2-TPD and H2-TPR. The EL conversion increased with the increase of vanadium loading of the VxOy/SBA-15 catalyst, while the selectivity to EP was always higher than 95% regardless of the vanadium loading. 95.8% EL conversion and 98.7% EP selectivity were obtained under optimized reaction conditions (130 °C, 4 h in CH3CN) over the 5.9VxOy/SBA-15 catalyst. The O2-TPD and H2-TPR results showed that there was strong interaction between VxOy and SBA-15, resulting in an increase of reducibility of the VxOy/SBA-15 catalysts. Correlations of turnover frequency (TOF) with vanadium loading and the percentage of V4+/(V4+ + V5+) were made to analyze the structure–activity relationships, and the probable catalytic mechanism was also proposed.

Graphical abstract: Highly efficient oxidation of ethyl lactate to ethyl pyruvate with molecular oxygen over VxOy/SBA-15 catalysts

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
07 Apr 2023
Accepted
15 Aug 2023
First published
25 Aug 2023

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2023,13, 5582-5591

Highly efficient oxidation of ethyl lactate to ethyl pyruvate with molecular oxygen over VxOy/SBA-15 catalysts

J. Xu, Z. Liu, Y. Zhou, R. Fu, Z. Wen, B. Yan and B. Xue, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2023, 13, 5582 DOI: 10.1039/D3CY00476G

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