Seguel Juan, García Rafael, Chimentão Ricardo José, García-Fierro José Luis, Ghampson I Tyrone, Escalona Néstor, Sepúlveda Catherine
Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad de Concepción, Edmundo Larenas 129, Casilla 160C, Chile.
Millenium Nuclei on Catalytic Processes towards Sustainable Chemistry (CSC), Santiago 7810000, Chile.
Materials (Basel). 2020 Jan 29;13(3):603. doi: 10.3390/ma13030603.
Glycerol hydrogenolysis to 1,2-propanediol (1,2-PDO) was performed over activated carbon supported copper-based catalysts. The catalysts were prepared by impregnation using a pristine carbon support and thermally-treated carbon supports (450, 600, 750, and 1000 °C). The final hydrogen adsorption capacity, porous structure, and total acidity of the catalysts were found to be important descriptors to understand catalytic performance. Oxygen surface groups on the support controlled copper dispersion by modifying acidic and adsorption properties. The amount of oxygen species of thermally modified carbon supports was also found to be a function of its specific surface area. Carbon supports with high specific surface areas contained large amount of oxygen surface species, inducing homogeneous distribution of Cu species on the carbon support during impregnation. The oxygen surface groups likely acted as anchorage centers, whereby the more stable oxygen surface groups after the reduction treatment produced an increase in the interaction of the copper species with the carbon support, and determined catalytic performances.
在活性炭负载的铜基催化剂上进行甘油氢解制1,2 - 丙二醇(1,2 - PDO)的反应。催化剂通过使用原始碳载体和经过热处理的碳载体(450、600、750和1000℃)浸渍制备。发现催化剂的最终氢吸附容量、多孔结构和总酸度是理解催化性能的重要描述符。载体上的氧表面基团通过改变酸性和吸附性能来控制铜的分散。还发现热改性碳载体的氧物种数量是其比表面积的函数。具有高比表面积的碳载体含有大量的氧表面物种,在浸渍过程中促使铜物种在碳载体上均匀分布。氧表面基团可能充当锚固中心,还原处理后更稳定的氧表面基团使铜物种与碳载体之间的相互作用增加,并决定了催化性能。