TY - JOUR
T1 - Origin of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural stability in water/dimethyl sulfoxide mixtures
AU - Tsilomelekis, George
AU - Josephson, Tyler R.
AU - Nikolakis, Vladimiros
AU - Caratzoulas, Stavros
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - In the present work, we combined vibrational spectroscopy with electronic structure calculations to understand the solvation of HMF in DMSO, water, and DMSO/water mixtures and to provide insights into the observed hindrance of HMF rehydration and aldol condensation reactions if it is dissolved in DMSO/water mixtures. To achieve this goal, the attenuated total reflection FTIR spectra of a wide composition range of binary and ternary mixtures were measured, analyzed, and compared to the findings of ab initio DFT calculations. The effect of solvent on the HMF C=O and OáH vibrational modes reveals significant differences that are ascribed to different intermolecular interactions between HMF and DMSO or water. We also found that DMSO binds to HMF more strongly than water, and interactions with the HMF hydroxyl group are stronger than those with the HMF carbonyl group. We also showed the preferential solvation of HMF C=O groups by DMSO if HMF is dissolved in DMSO/water mixed solvent. Frontier molecular orbital theory was used to examine the influence of the solvent on side reactions. The results show that HMF solvation by DMSO increases its LUMO energy, which reduces its susceptibility to nucleophilic attack and minimizes undesirable hydration and humin-formation reactions. This result, together with the preferential solvation of HMF by DMSO, provide an explanation for the enhanced HMF stability in DMSO/water mixtures observed experimentally.
AB - In the present work, we combined vibrational spectroscopy with electronic structure calculations to understand the solvation of HMF in DMSO, water, and DMSO/water mixtures and to provide insights into the observed hindrance of HMF rehydration and aldol condensation reactions if it is dissolved in DMSO/water mixtures. To achieve this goal, the attenuated total reflection FTIR spectra of a wide composition range of binary and ternary mixtures were measured, analyzed, and compared to the findings of ab initio DFT calculations. The effect of solvent on the HMF C=O and OáH vibrational modes reveals significant differences that are ascribed to different intermolecular interactions between HMF and DMSO or water. We also found that DMSO binds to HMF more strongly than water, and interactions with the HMF hydroxyl group are stronger than those with the HMF carbonyl group. We also showed the preferential solvation of HMF C=O groups by DMSO if HMF is dissolved in DMSO/water mixed solvent. Frontier molecular orbital theory was used to examine the influence of the solvent on side reactions. The results show that HMF solvation by DMSO increases its LUMO energy, which reduces its susceptibility to nucleophilic attack and minimizes undesirable hydration and humin-formation reactions. This result, together with the preferential solvation of HMF by DMSO, provide an explanation for the enhanced HMF stability in DMSO/water mixtures observed experimentally.
KW - Ab initio calculations
KW - Biomass
KW - Hydroxyfurfural
KW - Solvent effects
KW - Vibrational spectroscopy
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U2 - 10.1002/cssc.201300786
DO - 10.1002/cssc.201300786
M3 - Article
C2 - 24408726
AN - SCOPUS:84893821822
SN - 1864-5631
VL - 7
SP - 117
EP - 126
JO - ChemSusChem
JF - ChemSusChem
IS - 1
ER -