CSP researcher Guarav Kumar’s research Dehydra-decyclization of 2-methyltetrahydrofuran to pentadienes on boron-containing zeolites was selected as an Editor’s Choice article in the journal Green Chemistry.
1,3-Pentadiene (piperylene) is an important monomer in the manufacturing of adhesives, plastics, and resins. It can be derived from biomass by the tandem ring-opening and dehydration (dehydra-decyclization) of 2-methyltetrahydrofuran (2-MTHF), but competing reaction pathways and the formation of another isomer (1,4-pentadiene) have limited piperylene yields to <60%.
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