Route for Conversion of Furfural to Ethylcyclopentane

[Image: see text] A method for conversion of furfural, widely available platform chemical from biomass, to ethylcyclopentane, is reported. Ethylcyclopentane is a cyclic alkane with a relatively high octane number (RON 67, bp 103 °C) and could potentially serve as a drop-in biofuel. The synthetic rou...

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Autores principales: Bredihhin, Aleksei, Salmar, Siim, Vares, Lauri
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2018
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6645295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31459150
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.8b00588
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Sumario:[Image: see text] A method for conversion of furfural, widely available platform chemical from biomass, to ethylcyclopentane, is reported. Ethylcyclopentane is a cyclic alkane with a relatively high octane number (RON 67, bp 103 °C) and could potentially serve as a drop-in biofuel. The synthetic route includes a transformation of furfural to 1-(furan-2-yl)propan-1-ol that is further subjected to Piancatelli rearrangement to give 5-ethyl-4-hydroxycyclopent-2-en-1-one. The subsequent hydrodeoxygenation affords ethylcyclopentane in 48% isolated yield.

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