Photocatalytic reductive coupling of furfural into deoxyfuroin on mesoporous TiO2

Beibei Gao; Shuxian Wang; Min Liu; Jialing Ma; Tianliang Lu; Hongji Li

doi:10.1039/d4cc06100d

Photocatalytic reductive coupling of furfural into deoxyfuroin on mesoporous TiO₂

Chem Commun (Camb). 2025 Jan 3. doi: 10.1039/d4cc06100d. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Beibei Gao¹, Shuxian Wang¹, Min Liu², Jialing Ma¹, Tianliang Lu², Hongji Li¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China. [email protected].
² School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China. [email protected].

PMID: 39749360
DOI: 10.1039/d4cc06100d

Abstract

The two-step photocatalytic transformation of furfural into deoxyfuroin was achieved via the initial homocoupling of furfural into furoin over mesoporous TiO₂, followed by photocatalytic transfer hydrogenolysis of C-OH of furoin over the Cu/TiO₂ hybrid system.