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Aqueous-Phase Oxidation of Furfural to Maleic Acid Catalyzed by Copper Phosphate Catalysts

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This work describes catalytic aqueous-phase oxidation of furfural to maleic acid. The heterogeneous Cu-phosphate catalysts were prepared by coprecipitation method at different atomic ratios of precursors and characterized by various techniques. The CaCu-phosphate catalyst showed the best catalytic performance. Using this catalyst under reaction conditions (115 °C and 0.8 MPa of O2) 37.3 mol% yield and 54.8% selectivity of maleic acid were achieved. This catalyst can be recycled more than four times producing practically the same selectivity as fresh one by 13% decrease in furfural conversion. The proposed mechanism involves furoic acid as an intermediate in the formation of maleic acid.

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Support from the fund APVV-0297 is deeply appreciated.

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  1. Department of Organic Technology, Catalysis and Petroleum Chemistry, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 9, 812 37, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Tomáš Soták & Milan Hronec

  2. Department of Inorganic Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 9, 812 37, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Miroslav Gál

  3. Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 845 41, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Edmund Dobročka

  4. Institute of Electronics and Fotonics, Slovak University of Technology, Ilkovičova 3, 812 19, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Jaroslava Škriniarová

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Soták, T., Hronec, M., Gál, M. et al. Aqueous-Phase Oxidation of Furfural to Maleic Acid Catalyzed by Copper Phosphate Catalysts. Catal Lett 147, 2714–2723 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-017-2191-5

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