Cu/carbon xerogel catalysts for glycerol selective oxidation reaction

NAILA GÓMEZ GONZÁLEZ; SAMANTHA FLORES; ANA ARENILLAS DE LA PUENTE; MATIAS GASTÓN RINAUDO; CADUS, LUIS E.; MARIA R. MORALES

Santa Fé

Workshop; French-Argentinean Workshop on Heterogeneous Catalysis; 2023

Glycerol (GLY) catalytic oxidation is one of the proposed ways to valorize this industrial by-product into high value-added products such as lactic acid (LA) and glyceric acid (GA) [1]. In case of supported catalysts, carbon materials have been widely studied as support, due to their multiple advantages, such as large specific surface area and the possibility to modify the oxygenated functional groups (OFG) present on their surfaces, which can become the active phase in several reactions [2]. Good catalytic performance has been obtained over noble metals [3] while the addition of Cu has been studied to reduce costs. In the present work two carbon xerogels supports with and without Cu were synthesized, characterized and evaluated under glycerol selective oxidation.