Rohling, Roderigh Y. (author), Uslamin, Evgeny (author), Zijlstra, Bart (author), Tranca, Ionut C. (author), Filot, Ivo A.W. (author), Hensen, Emiel J.M. (author), Pidko, E.A. (author) The one-pot Diels-Alder cycloaddition (DAC)/dehydration (D) tandem reaction between 2,5-dimethylfuran and ethylene is a potent pathway toward biomass-derived p-xylene. In this work, we present a cheap and active low-silica potassium-exchanged faujasite (KY, Si/Al = 2.6) catalyst. Catalyst optimization was guided by a computational study of...
journal article 2018
