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T1 - Selective Aerobic Oxidation of Lactate to Pyruvate Catalyzed by Vanadium-Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanosheets
AU - Zhang, Wei
AU - Oulego, Paula
AU - Slot, Thierry K.
AU - Rothenberg, Gadi
AU - Shiju, N. Raveendran
PY - 2019/8/7
Y1 - 2019/8/7
N2 - The catalytic oxidative dehydrogenation of lactates with molecular oxygen is a promising yet challenging route for producing high-value pyruvates from biomass. Here we report a simple synthetic strategy for preparing nitrogen-doped carbon nanosheets (NCNs) starting from two abundant precursors, cheap melamine and glucose, and using a simple thermal-annealing process. The resulting NCNs feature numerous edges and holes for anchoring vanadium oxides (V-NCNs). This creates cooperative catalytic sites that boost the catalytic oxidation of ethyl lactate to ethyl pyruvate. Additionally, we systematically studied the surface nitrogen species of NCNs by varying the pyrolysis temperature, and found that the active pyridinic N-oxide species formed in a high thermal-annealing treatment, acting synergistically with vanadium active sites in converting ethyl lactate with oxygen into ethyl pyruvate under mild conditions.
AB - The catalytic oxidative dehydrogenation of lactates with molecular oxygen is a promising yet challenging route for producing high-value pyruvates from biomass. Here we report a simple synthetic strategy for preparing nitrogen-doped carbon nanosheets (NCNs) starting from two abundant precursors, cheap melamine and glucose, and using a simple thermal-annealing process. The resulting NCNs feature numerous edges and holes for anchoring vanadium oxides (V-NCNs). This creates cooperative catalytic sites that boost the catalytic oxidation of ethyl lactate to ethyl pyruvate. Additionally, we systematically studied the surface nitrogen species of NCNs by varying the pyrolysis temperature, and found that the active pyridinic N-oxide species formed in a high thermal-annealing treatment, acting synergistically with vanadium active sites in converting ethyl lactate with oxygen into ethyl pyruvate under mild conditions.
KW - heterogeneous catalysis
KW - biomass conversion
KW - platform molecules
KW - catalytic oxidation
KW - synergistic effect
KW - XPS
U2 - 10.1002/cctc.201900819
DO - 10.1002/cctc.201900819
M3 - Journal article
VL - 11
SP - 3381
EP - 3387
JO - ChemCatChem
JF - ChemCatChem
SN - 1867-3880
IS - 15
ER -