Hydrothermal dehydration is an attractive method for deoxygenation and upgrading of biofuels because it requires no reagents or catalysts other than superheated water. Although mono-alcohols cleanly deoxygenate via dehydration under many conditions, polyols such as those derived from saccharides and related structures are known to be recalcitrant with respect to dehydration. Here, we describe detailed mechanistic and kinetic studies of hydrothermal dehydration of 1,2- and 1,4-cyclohexanediols as model compounds to investigate how interactions between the hydroxyls can control the reaction. The diols generally dehydrate more slowly and have more complex reaction pathways than simple cyclohexanol. Although hydrogen bonding between hydroxyls is an important feature of the diol reactions, hydrogen bonding on its own does not explain the reduced reactivity. Rather, it is the way that hydrogen bonding influences the balance between the E1 and E2 elimination mechanisms. We also describe the reaction pathways and follow-up secondary reactions for the slower-dehydrating diols.
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