Dehydration of xylose and glucose to furan derivatives using bifunctional partially hydroxylated MgF<sub>2</sub> catalysts and N<sub>2</sub>-stripping

Iker Agirrezabal-Tellería, Yanying Guo, Felix Hemmann, P.L. Arias, Erhard Kemnitz

Catalysis Science & Technology · 2014 · 32 citations · 39 references

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The current furfural production yield is low due to the use of non-selective homogeneous catalysts and expensive separation.

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