This thesis is about the study of developing novel catalysts and catalytic processes and applying them to convert renewable alcohols produced from biomass into value-added chemicals. It focuses on developing iridium catalysts for hydrogen transfer initiated dehydration of 1,3- propanediol in ionic liquids as solvent and applying functionalized ionic liquids as homo- and heterogeneous catalysts for dehydration of D-sorbitol and rac-1-phenylethanol respectively.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:709855 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Wang, Yueming |
| Publisher | Queen's University Belfast |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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