Polyoxometalate Catalysis for Sustainable Bio-Derived Products (Chemicals, Materials and Fuels)
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomass Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 November 2021) | Viewed by 4472
Special Issue Editor
Interests: homogeneous polyoxometalate catalysis in lignocellulosic biomass conversion; enzymatic catalysis; carbohydrate behavior and reactivity during chemical and biochemical processing; biorefinery; biotechnology; kinetics and modeling of chemical processes; cellulose fibers production by advanced eco-clean processes; green chemical technologies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of abundant, low-cost lignocellulosic biomass to replace petroleum-based chemicals from fossil resources is a challenge of much current interest and importance. The integrated biorefinery concept of the lignocellulosic biomass conversion into fuel, chemicals, and materials is now seen as the most feasible potential way to achieve a sustainable bio-economy. The development of effective catalytic methods for selective eco-clean (green) fractionation and upgrading of the main biomass components (cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin) is crucial for a viable biorefining technology.
Polyoxometalates (POMs), early transition metal oxygen anion clusters, represent an important class of synthetic inorganic catalysts. Heteropolyoxometalates (free heteropolyacids and salts of heteropolyanions, HPAs), possessing properties of both strong acids with extremely high Brönsted and Lewis acidity and very power multi-electron oxidants, hold a great interest now as bi-functional catalysts for various homogeneous and heterogeneous reaction systems. The unique complex of HPA properties, such as structural and functional mobility that can be easily controlled during a rather simple and low cost synthesis, high solubility in water and various oxygen-containing organic solvents, high stability over a wide range of reaction conditions, and, finally, easy regeneration after utilization, make HPAs very attractive catalysts in biomass conversion technologies.
Significant progress has been achieved in recent years in the development and application of POM catalytic systems (both homogeneous and heterogeneous) in biomass conversion technology. This Special Issue invites original research papers covering all aspects of homogeneous or heterogeneous catalysis by POMs in the field of lignocellulosic biomass biorefinery and chemical conversion of isolated biomass components, including, but not limited to, the following topics: POM-catalyzed fractionation of biomass; POM-catalyzed oxidation reactions; POM-catalyzed hydrolysis/acid reactions; POM-catalyzed synthesis and modification of biomass components; POM catalysis of biomass conversion in green solvents; POM solid catalysts for biomass conversion; POM and product recovery during biomass conversion; new POM catalysts for biomass fractionation/upgrading; etc.
Dr. Anatoly A. Shatalov
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Polyoxometalate;
- Heteropolyacid;
- Heteropolyanion;
- Homogeneous catalysis;
- Heterogeneous catalysis;
- Oxidation;
- Hydrolysis;
- Synthesis;
- Modification;
- Biorefinery;
- Lignocellulosic biomass;
- Biomass conversion
