@article { ISI:000307209400005,
	title = {Alkylation of benzene to cumene over mor zeolite catalysts},
	journal = {Revue Roumaine De Chimie},
	volume = {57},
	number = {2},
	year = {2012},
	month = {FEB},
	pages = {107-113},
	publisher = {EDITURA ACAD ROMANE},
	address = {CALEA 13 SEPTEMBRIE NR 13, SECTOR 5, BUCURESTI 050711, ROMANIA},
	abstract = {<p>The vapor phase alkylation of benzene to cumene (isopropyl benzene) is studied over MOR (mordenite) type zeolite at different process parameters. The reaction was also studied by adopting different methodologies (pyridine poisoning, passing of moist propylene, alkali dominant mordenite, use of coked catalyst and metal impregnated zeolite) to check the nature of product distribution and the extent of activity and selectivity to alkylated product IPB, DIPB (isopropyl benzene and diisopropyl benzene) and n-PB (n-propyl benzene). It is revealed that the adoption of different methodologies affects the activity and selectivity significantly by suppressing of alkylation / isomerisation reactions.</p>},
	keywords = {Alkylation, cumene, isopropanol, MOR zeolite, propylene},
	issn = {0035-3930},
	author = {Vyawahare, Yogesh K. and Chumbhale, Vilas R. and Aswar, Anand S.}
}
@article {46755,
	title = {Maximization of furanic compounds formation by dehydration and hydrogenation of xylose in one step over SO3-H functionalized H-beta catalyst in alcohol media},
	journal = {Biomass \& Bioenergy},
	volume = {139},
	year = {2020},
	month = {AUG},
	pages = {105646},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {<p>Furanic compounds such as furfural (FUR); furfuryl alcohol (F. Alc) are important renewable platform chemicals can be used as such or further convert for preparation of other value added products such as Levulinic acid (LA), Alkyl Levulinates, 2-Methyltetrahydrofuran (MTHF), and Tetrahydrofuran (THF) etc. Sulfonated H-beta zeolite was successfully prepared and used for the synthesis of furanic compounds especially FUR and F. Alc from c-xylose in one step using isopropanol as alcohol media. Prepared catalyst was well characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), BET, NH3-Temperature programmed desorption (TPD) and carbon-hydrogen-nitrogen-sulfur analysis (CHNS). It was found the total acid amount was increased with increase in sulfur loading which confirmed the sulfonic acid group (SO3-H) was successfully grafted onto zeolite structure. 3 wt\% H-beta-SO3-H catalyst with optimized reaction parameters of 150 degrees C, 7 h, 25 wt\% catalyst loading was tuned to get the highest furanic compound yield of 88.5\% (FUR 76.8\% + F.Alc 11.7\%).The reusability study confirmed that there was a marginal drop of similar to 25\% after 3 recycle runs.</p>
},
	keywords = {furfural, Furfuryl alcohol, H-beta, isopropanol, sulfonated zeolite, Xylose},
	issn = {0961-9534},
	doi = {10.1016/j.biombioe.2020.105646},
	author = {Gupta, Anshita and Nandanwar, Sachin U. and Niphadkar, Prashant and Simakova, Irina and Bokade, Vijay}
}
