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. 2010 Nov 22;3(11):1268-72.
doi: 10.1002/cssc.201000181.

Synthesis of furfural from xylose and xylan

Joseph B Binder  1 , Jacqueline J Blank, Anthony V Cefali, Ronald T Raines
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Synthesis of furfural from xylose and xylan

Joseph B Binder et al. ChemSusChem. .
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Route for the synthesis of furfural from xylan. Gray box: Putative mechanism for the acid-catalyzed dehydration of xylose, in which displacement of the protonated C-2 hydroxyl group leads to a 2,5-anhydride intermediate that dehydrates to furfural.[8, 7]
Figure 2
Figure 2
Log–log plots of initial rates of furfural formation vs. the concentration of xylose and CrCl2. a) Xylose; linear regression analysis gives slope=1.0, which is consistent with a first-order dependence of the rate of furfural formation on [xylose]. b) CrCl2; linear regression analysis gives slope=0.4, which is consistent with a complex dependence of the rate of furfural formation on [CrCl2].
Figure 3
Figure 3
Putative mechanisms for the chromium(III)-catalyzed conversion of xylose into furfural. Hydrogens replaced with deuteriums in isotopic labeling studies are depicted in boldface type.
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