Quantitative production of butenes from biomass-derived γ-valerolactone catalysed by hetero-atomic MFI zeolite

Longfei Lin; Alena M. Sheveleva; Ivan da Silva; Christopher M.A. Parlett; Zhimou Tang; Yueming Liu; Mengtian Fan; Xue Han; Joseph H. Carter; Floriana Tuna; Eric J.L. McInnes; Yongqiang Cheng; Luke L. Daemen; Svemir Rudić; Anibal J. Ramirez-Cuesta; Chiu C. Tang; Sihai Yang

doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0562-6

Quantitative production of butenes from biomass-derived γ-valerolactone catalysed by hetero-atomic MFI zeolite

Longfei Lin
, Alena M. Sheveleva
, Ivan da Silva
, Christopher M.A. Parlett
, Zhimou Tang
, Yueming Liu
, Mengtian Fan
, Xue Han
, Joseph H. Carter
, Floriana Tuna
, Eric J.L. McInnes
, Yongqiang Cheng
, Luke L. Daemen
, Svemir Rudić
, Anibal J. Ramirez-Cuesta
, Chiu C. Tang
, Sihai Yang^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering

University of Manchester
International Tomography Centre SB RAS and Novosibirsk State University
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Diamond Light Source
East China Normal University
A110 Life Science Building

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Abstract

The efficient production of light olefins from renewable biomass is a vital and challenging target to achieve future sustainable chemical processes. Here we report a hetero-atomic MFI-type zeolite (NbAlS-1), over which aqueous solutions of γ-valerolactone (GVL), obtained from biomass-derived carbohydrates, can be quantitatively converted into butenes with a yield of >99% at ambient pressure under continuous flow conditions. NbAlS-1 incorporates simultaneously niobium(v) and aluminium(iii) centres into the framework and thus has a desirable distribution of Lewis and Brønsted acid sites with optimal strength. Synchrotron X-ray diffraction and absorption spectroscopy show that there is cooperativity between Nb(v) and the Brønsted acid sites on the confined adsorption of GVL, whereas the catalytic mechanism for the conversion of the confined GVL into butenes is revealed by in situ inelastic neutron scattering, coupled with modelling. This study offers a prospect for the sustainable production of butene as a platform chemical for the manufacture of renewable materials.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	86-93
Number of pages	8
Journal	Nature Materials
Volume	19
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0562-6
State	Published - 1 Jan 2020

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Lin, L., Sheveleva, A. M., da Silva, I., Parlett, C. M. A., Tang, Z., Liu, Y., Fan, M., Han, X., Carter, J. H., Tuna, F., McInnes, E. J. L., Cheng, Y., Daemen, L. L., Rudić, S., Ramirez-Cuesta, A. J., Tang, C. C., & Yang, S. (2020). Quantitative production of butenes from biomass-derived γ-valerolactone catalysed by hetero-atomic MFI zeolite. Nature Materials, 19(1), 86-93. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0562-6

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