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Dehydration of Xylose to Furfural over Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquid with Phase Separation
- Derun Hua,
- Hao Ding,
- Yunfeng Liu,
- Jian Li and
- Baojun Han
An environmentally friendly catalyst and task-specific ionic liquid (IL), 1-(4-sulfonic acid) butyl-3-cetyl-2-methyl imidazolium hydrogen sulfate, was applied to the dehydration of xylose to furfural. Its structure was determined by FT-IR, 1H NMR tec...

