Xiaoyue Wan

TL;DR: In this article, a stable and efficient carbon nanotube (CNT)-supported Au-Pd alloy catalyst was proposed for the aerobic oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) in water without any bases.

TL;DR: Both theoretical and experimental studies suggest that lead(II) in combination with water catalyses a series of cascading steps for lactic acid formation, including the isomerization of glucose formed via the hydrolysis of cellulose into fructose, the selective cleavage of the C3-C4 bond of fructose to trioses and the selective conversion of trioses into lactic Acid.

TL;DR: This work reports that simple vanadyl (VO(2+)) cations catalyze the conversions of cellulose and its monomer, glucose, into lactic acid and formic acid in water and demonstrates that the addition of an alcohol suppresses the formation of CO2 and enhances the formic Acid yield significantly to 70-75 %.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that Pt nanoparticles loaded on functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can catalyze the aerobic oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) into 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) without any base additives.

TL;DR: In this paper, Magnesia-supported gold nanoparticles were found to be highly efficient catalysts for the oxidative esterification of methacrolein (MAL) with methanol in the presence of molecular oxygen into methyl methacrylate (MMA) under liquid base-free conditions.