Metal organic frameworks for biomass conversion

Biomass is increasingly used as a source of fuels and chemicals as a renewable alternative to fossil feedstocks. Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin are converted into platform chemicals from which a large range of compounds are derived with different structures. These biomass transformation process...

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Published inChemical Society reviews Vol. 49; no. 11; pp. 3638 - 3687
Main Authors Fang, Ruiqi, Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi, Li, Yingwei, Garcia, Hermenegildo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Royal Society of Chemistry 08.06.2020
Subjects
Biocompatible Materials - chemistry
Biofuels
Biomass
Catalysis
Catalysts
Cellulose - chemistry
Chemistry Techniques, Synthetic - methods
Conversion
Lignin - chemistry
Liquid phases
Metal-organic frameworks
Metal-Organic Frameworks - chemistry
Molecular Conformation
Polymers - chemistry
Selectivity
Silicon Dioxide - chemistry
Solvents - chemistry
Substrates
Surface Properties
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Summary:Biomass is increasingly used as a source of fuels and chemicals as a renewable alternative to fossil feedstocks. Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin are converted into platform chemicals from which a large range of compounds are derived with different structures. These biomass transformation processes require the use of efficient and durable catalysts that should drive the selectivity of the process. This review focuses on the use of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and derivatives as catalysts for biomass conversion. After an introduction setting up the importance of the field and the MOF features that justify their prevalence as heterogeneous catalysts for liquid phase reactions, the two main parts of the review are the description of MOF synthesis and adaptation and coverage of the catalytic reactions involving biomass substrates organized according to the type of MOF. The last section summarizes the current state of the art and our outlook for the future development of the field. This review narrates the recent developments on the catalytic applications of pristine metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), functionalized MOFs, guests embedded over MOFs and MOFs derived carbon composites for biomass conversion into platform chemicals.
Bibliography:Ruiqi Fang received his BS degree in 2014 and PhD in 2018, both from South China University of Technology. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Yingwei Li's group at the same university. His research is centered on the design and preparation of MOF-based nanocomposites and their applications in biomass valorizations.
Hermenegildo Garcia is a Professor at the Technical University of Valencia, and an Honorary Adjunct Professor at the King Abdulaziz University. Prof. Garcia has been active in the field of heterogeneous catalysis and photocatalysis. He has published over 750 research papers and has filed over 30 patents. Prof. Garcia has received the Rey D. Jaime I award on New Technology in 2016, Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Bucharest and the 2011 Janssen-Cilag award of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry. He is the president of the editorial board of ChemCatChem and an editorial board member of seven Wiley and Royal Society journals.
Amarajothi Dhakshinamoorthy obtained his PhD degree in 2009 from Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu, India. Later, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Hermenegildo Garcia at the Technical University of Valencia for four years. Then, he returned to India and joined as a UGC-Assistant Professor in June 2013 at the School of Chemistry, Madurai Kamaraj University. His research interests include catalysis by metal-organic frameworks and graphene-related materials. He is the recipient of the Young Scientist Award 2014 for Chemical Sciences by The Academy of Sciences, India. He was also awarded an INSA-DFG international bilateral exchange award to visit Germany in 2015. He has co-authored over one hundred publications, two book chapters and one international patent.
Yingwei Li received his BSc degree in 1998 and his PhD in 2003, both from Tsinghua University, and he then conducted postdoctoral work at the University of Calgary and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) from 2003 to 2007. He is currently a full professor at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology. His research focuses on the design and synthesis of new MOF based materials for heterogeneous catalysis.
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ISSN:0306-0012
1460-4744
DOI:10.1039/d0cs00070a