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Efficient production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural through the dehydration of sugars with caprolactam hydrogen sulfate ([CPL]HSO4) ionic liquid catalyst in a water/proprylene glycol monomethyl ether mixed solvent

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Efficient production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) through the dehydration of sugars was achieved by developing a new catalyst caprolactam hydrogen sulfate ([CPL]HSO4) ionic liquid or using metal halide as the co-catalyst in a new water/proprylene glycol monomethyl ether solvent system. With an optimum synthesis condition, the yield of HMF derived from fructose dehydration at 105 °C for 90 min is as high as 80.5 % in the presence of [CPL]HSO4. The nature behind the attractive results was revealed by proposing the catalysis mechanism of the fructose dehydration. The yield of HMF is about 70 % using [CPL]HSO4 as the catalyst for fructose dehydration after being reused five times. The catalyst system [CPL]HSO4/metal halide was used for the dehydration of sucrose, and the optimum yield is as high as 64–68 %.

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The authors thank the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD) and Suzhou Applied Basic Research Program (SYG201141) for financially supporting this project.

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  1. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, People’s Republic of China

    Pingzhen Huang & Aijuan Gu

  2. Suzhou Xingye Material Technology Co., Ltd., Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215151, People’s Republic of China

    Pingzhen Huang & Jinxing Wang

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Huang, P., Gu, A. & Wang, J. Efficient production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural through the dehydration of sugars with caprolactam hydrogen sulfate ([CPL]HSO4) ionic liquid catalyst in a water/proprylene glycol monomethyl ether mixed solvent. Res Chem Intermed 41, 5311–5321 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11164-014-1633-6

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