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Triazolium‐based ionic liquids supported on alumina as catalysts to produce 5‐HMF from fructose
Araya‐Lopez, Claudio
Conejeros, Jael
Valdebenito, Cristian
Merlet, Gastón
Marco, José
Abarca, Gabriel
Salazar, Ricardo
Romero, Julio
Wiley
2022
The dehydration of fructose to selectively produce 5‐HMF was catalytically developed in a new type of ionic liquids based on triazoles supported on alumina (Al2O3). The synthesis of triazoles by 1,3‐dipolar cycloaddition allows for creating a tailor‐made triazole, that was eventually used to design catalysts based on triazolium‐based ionic liquids. In this work, four catalysts based on triazolium‐ionic liquids supported on Al2O3 were synthesized to produce 5‐HMF from fructose in DMSO as the reaction solvent. According to their molecular structure, the catalysts were tagged as TR1/Al2O3, TR1‐HSO4/Al2O3, TR2/Al2O3, and TR2‐HSO4/Al2O3.