Emerging heterogeneous catalysts for biomass conversion: studies of the reaction mechanism
The development of efficient catalysts to break down and convert woody biomass will be a paradigm shift in delivering the global target of sustainable economy and environment via the use of cheap, highly abundant, and renewable carbon resources. However, such development is extremely challenging due...
Saved in:
| Published in | Chemical Society reviews Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 1127 - 11292 |
|---|---|
| Main Authors | , , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
| Published |
London
Royal Society of Chemistry
18.10.2021
|
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Get full text |
Cover
Loading…
| Summary: | The development of efficient catalysts to break down and convert woody biomass will be a paradigm shift in delivering the global target of sustainable economy and environment
via
the use of cheap, highly abundant, and renewable carbon resources. However, such development is extremely challenging due to the complexity of lignocellulose, and today most biomass is treated simply as waste. The solution lies in the design of multifunctional catalysts that can place effective control on substrate activation and product selectivity. This is, however, severely hindered by the lack of fundamental understanding of (i) the precise role of active sites, and (ii) the catalyst-substrate chemistry that underpins the catalytic activity. Moreover, active sites alone often cannot deliver the desired selectivity of products, and full understanding of the microenvironment of the active sites is urgently needed. Here, we review key recent advances in the study of reaction mechanisms of biomass conversion over emerging heterogeneous catalysts. These insights will inform the design of future catalytic systems showing improved activity and selectivity.
This review analyses the reaction mechanisms for the conversion of biomass and derivatives studied by inelastic neutron scattering, synchrotron X-ray diffraction, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, NMR, isotope-labelling and computational techniques. |
|---|---|
| Bibliography: | Dr Longfei Lin received his PhD in Chemistry (2017) from Université Pierre et Marie Curie under the supervision of Professor Hélène Lauron-Pernot. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester (2017-2020). In 2021, Dr Lin joined the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as an academic member of staff. His research interest lies in biomass conversion over new solid catalysts, particularly in understanding the essential relationship between the reaction performance and active sites/structure of the catalysts by combined experimental and computational techniques. NO 2 3 into valuable chemicals. He is an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Dr Xue Han received her BSc from Peking University in 2007 and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham in 2010 under the supervision of Sir Professor Martyn Poliakoff. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester. Her research interest lies in the development of functional porous materials for the capture and conversion of gaseous air pollutants, such as NH as well as separation and catalysis of valuable organic compounds. The research will promote the development of a clean-air future. and SO x Professor Buxing Han received his PhD (1988) from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and did postdoctoral research (1989-1991) at the University of Saskatchewan. He has been a Professor at the Institute of Chemistry, CAS, since 1993 and is the Chairman of Green Chemistry Committee, Chinese Chemical Society. He works on green chemistry and sustainable chemistry, especially the catalytic transformation of biomass and CO Dr Sihai Yang received his BSc and PhD in Chemistry from Peking University (2007) and the University of Nottingham (2010), respectively. He is currently a Reader in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Manchester. Yang's group develops porous materials based upon stable metal-organic frameworks and zeolites for applications in clean-air technology, heterogeneous catalysis, separation and conductivity. He has made pioneering contributions for the application of cutting-edge techniques, such as synchrotron X-ray diffraction, spectroscopy, neutron diffraction and inelastic/quasi-elastic neutron scattering, to in situ and operando studies of many dynamic and complex chemical processes. ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-3 content type line 23 ObjectType-Review-1 |
| ISSN: | 0306-0012 1460-4744 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/d1cs00039j |