Publications by authors named "Xin Xia Xue"

In this study, organic acid could be used as co-catalyst for assisting solid acid SO/SnO-argil to convert hemicellulose-derived D-xylose into furfural. The relationship between pKa of organic acid and turnover frequency (TOF) of co-catalysis with organic acid plus SO/SnO-argil was explored on the conversion of D-xylose to furfural. Oxalic acid (pKa = 1.

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In this study, carbohydrates (cellulose plus hemicellulose) in corncob were effectively converted furfuralcohol (FOL) via chemical-enzymatic catalysis in a one-pot manner. After corncob (2.5 g, dry weight) was pretreated with 0.

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Article Synopsis
  • Researchers successfully synthesized furfuralcohol from xylose derived from corncobs using a combined method of solid acid catalysis and whole-cell biotransformation.
  • The catalyst SO/SnO-kaoline achieved a furfural yield of 74.3% when processing xylose in a specific toluene-water mixture at high temperature.
  • After mixing the resulting furfural with corncob hydrolysate, the engineered E. coli completely converted it to furfuralcohol, demonstrating a viable method for efficiently utilizing corncob waste.
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