{"title":"Decatungstate-Based Ionic Liquid Highly Active Under Mild Conditions for Upgrading Recalcitrant Humins from Biorefineries","authors":"Nour Zeaiter, Yohan Martinetto, Laurent Cézard, Mohamed Haouas, Catherine Roch-Marchal, Bruce Pégot, Sébastien Floquet, Betty Cottyn-Boitte","doi":"10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c05419","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Among all the materials resulting from the recovery of biomass, humin coproducts are produced today on a large scale, particularly in the sugar industry and biorefineries. Humins formation, with typical yields between 10 and 50 wt %, significantly reduces the efficiency and economic viability of the processes. With their complex structure, low solubility, and low reactivity, their valorization constitutes a real challenge. This paper aims to establish the proof of concept for the transformation of recalcitrant humins into high-value-added biobased products using polyoxometalate-based ionic liquids (POM-ILs) under “mild” conditions. In this contribution, the POM-IL (P<sub>6,6,6,14</sub>)<sub>4</sub>[W<sub>10</sub>O<sub>32</sub>] is used in the presence of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>, at atmospheric pressure and 90 °C for just 1 h. This system proved to be a powerful oxidizing catalyst for the extensive depolymerization of humins and their valorization into platform molecules. Under these conditions, the humin powder underwent an almost complete oxidative dissolution in the 94–99% yield range, leading to the formation of various carboxylic acids of industrial interest and sugars.","PeriodicalId":40,"journal":{"name":"Inorganic Chemistry","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Inorganic Chemistry","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c05419","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, INORGANIC & NUCLEAR","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Among all the materials resulting from the recovery of biomass, humin coproducts are produced today on a large scale, particularly in the sugar industry and biorefineries. Humins formation, with typical yields between 10 and 50 wt %, significantly reduces the efficiency and economic viability of the processes. With their complex structure, low solubility, and low reactivity, their valorization constitutes a real challenge. This paper aims to establish the proof of concept for the transformation of recalcitrant humins into high-value-added biobased products using polyoxometalate-based ionic liquids (POM-ILs) under “mild” conditions. In this contribution, the POM-IL (P6,6,6,14)4[W10O32] is used in the presence of H2O2, at atmospheric pressure and 90 °C for just 1 h. This system proved to be a powerful oxidizing catalyst for the extensive depolymerization of humins and their valorization into platform molecules. Under these conditions, the humin powder underwent an almost complete oxidative dissolution in the 94–99% yield range, leading to the formation of various carboxylic acids of industrial interest and sugars.
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Inorganic Chemistry publishes fundamental studies in all phases of inorganic chemistry. Coverage includes experimental and theoretical reports on quantitative studies of structure and thermodynamics, kinetics, mechanisms of inorganic reactions, bioinorganic chemistry, and relevant aspects of organometallic chemistry, solid-state phenomena, and chemical bonding theory. Emphasis is placed on the synthesis, structure, thermodynamics, reactivity, spectroscopy, and bonding properties of significant new and known compounds.