Dehydration of Carbohydrates to 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural in Ionic Liquids Catalyzed by Hexachlorotriphosphazene

Hexachlorotriphosphazene-assisted buried interface passivation for stable and efficient wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells

Large open-circuit voltage (V_oc) loss is the main issue limiting the efficiency improvement in wide bandgap perovskite solar cells (PerSCs). Herein, a facile buried interface treatment by hexachlorotriphosphazene is developed to suppress the V_oc loss. The PerSCs include a [Cs_0.22FA_0.78Pb(I_0.85Br_0.15)₃]_0.97(MAPbCl₃)_0.03 (1.67 eV) absorber and deliver an efficiency of 21.47% and a V_oc of 1.21 V (V_oc loss of 0.46 V). More importantly, the unencapsulated PerSCs maintain 90% of the initial efficiency after aging 500 h in N₂.

Selective Dehydration of Glucose into 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural by Ionic Liquid-ZrOCl2 in Isopropanol

In this work, a heterogeneous catalytic system consisting of [HO2CMMIm]Cl and ZrOCl2 in isopropanol is demonstrated to be effective for 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) synthesis with glucose as the feedstock. Various reaction conditions for HMF synthesis by glucose dehydration were investigated systematically. Under optimized reaction conditions, as high as 43 mol% HMF yield could be achieved. Increasing the water content to a level below 3.17% led to the production of HMF with a higher yield, while a lower HMF yield was observed when the water content was increased above 3.17%. In addition, the data also showed that ZrOCl2 could not only effectively convert glucose into intermediate species (which were not fructose, in contrast to the literature) but also catalyze the intermediate species’ in situ dehydration into HMF. [HO2CMMIm]Cl was used to catalyze the intermediate species’ in situ conversion to HMF. The kinetics data showed that a temperature increase accelerated the intermediate species’ dehydration reaction rate. The reaction of glucose dehydration was a strong endothermal reaction.

Production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural from fructose by a thermo-regulated and recyclable Brønsted acidic ionic liquid catalyst

A thermo-regulated recyclable ionic liquid catalyst bearing acidic functional group for fructose dehydration to produce HMF in 91.2% yield.