Effect of the Solvent on the Basic Properties of Mg–Al Hydrotalcite Catalysts for Glucose Isomerization
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Overall, very interesting work on the studying the solvent mediated and impact of catalytic mechanisms involved in the isomerization of gluscose into fructose.
The following comments are for the authors consideration:
- The authors should update figure 2 to have different colors represent each of the XRD spectra in the overlay plot of the various HTX catalysts.
- Recommend including scale bar missing in Figure 4 d and updating the caption to include the detail of each subpanel SEM presented in Figure 4 a-d.
- The authors should include more detail on the mechanisms of how the specific solvents each impact the ring opening reaction. It would be beneficial in addition to table 2 presented to include a discussion in section 2.1 "properties of various solvents used for glucose isomerzation"
- It is recommended that the authors incorporate standard deviation/error bars in for the data presented in both Figure 6 and Figure 7.
- Recommend moving section 3.4 to earlier on in the paper and discuss how the results found help with conversion, selectivity, and yield.
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Reviewer 2 Report
This particular manuscript is a bit out of my area of expertise so I will lean on the other reviewers/editorial team to comment on the overall novelty and significance of this study. I can see no glaring errors or omissions here. The work is of the current length and scope for Catalysts so, barring objections from other reviewers, I would make the following minor changes before publication:
Line 45: "...14glucose ..." ??
References: the authors should use standard journal name abbreviations here as is the convention of the Journal.
Line 471: "Communications" is mis-spelt.
Line 496: <bold> the quoted date.
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