Publications by authors named "Fabio Junior M Novaes"

Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages worldwide. Cafestol is an endogenous coffee diterpene present in raw coffee beans and also found in hot beverages, with several biological activities. However, there is still little information on this molecule after ingestion of coffee infusion.

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This work investigates batch and continuous-flow heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenation of a mixture of cafestol and kahweol (C&K) to obtain pure cafestol. These diterpenes were extracted from green coffee beans, and hydrogenation was performed using well-established palladium catalysts (Pd/C, Pd/CaCO, Pd/BaSO, and Pd/AlO) and a carbon black-supported Pd catalyst coated by a covalently tethered SiO shell with mesoporous texture (Pd/CB@SiO), all partially deactivated with quinoline. Pd/C 10% poisoned with 1 wt % quinoline gave the best result for batch reaction, producing cafestol from kahweol with high selectivity (>99%) after 10 min.

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