Synthesis of isosorbide from sorbitol in water over high-silica aluminosilicate zeolites文档.pdfVIP

Applied Catalysis A: General 505 (2015) 28–35 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Applied Catalysis A: General j o u r n a l h o m e p ag e: w w w. elsev /locate/apc ata Synthesis of isosorbide from sorbitol in water over high-silica aluminosilicate zeolites Ryoichi Otomo, Toshiyuki Yokoi ∗ , Takashi Tatsumi Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Dehydration of sorbitol to isosorbide in water was studied using various types of aluminosilicate zeo- Received 21 May 2015 lites as heterogeneous catalyst. Among the zeolite catalysts tested, the *BEA-type aluminosilicate zeolite Received in revised form 14 July 2015 (beta) showed a remarkably high catalytic performance; especially, beta zeolite with the Si/Al ratio of 75, Accepted 22 July 2015 designated as beta(75), gave an isosorbide yield as high as 80%. We have found that the three-dimensional Available online 26 July 2015 large pore structure is favorable for enhancing the diffusion of sorbitol and the products. In addition, beta with a low Al content exhibited a higher catalytic activity than that with a high Al content, despite the Keywords: small number of acid sites. The reason for this high catalytic activity is ascribed to hydrophobicity of the Dehydration Hydrophobicity