2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Biomass Upgrading II: C-C Bond Cleavage and Coupling

Chair

Jeremy Luterbacher, Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne

Co-Chairs

Ali Hussain Motagamwala, University of Michigan
Canan Sener, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Presentations

08:00 AM

(111a) Tracking the Elementary Kinetics and Dynamic Evolution of Molecular Structures during Biomass Pyrolysis
Ziwei Wang, Matthew Neurock

08:15 AM

(111b) Evolution of Cellulose Structure throughout Biomass Deconstruction in Gamma-Valerolactone
Elise B. Gilcher, Theodore Walker, Nathaniel Kuch, Brian G. Fox, Thatcher W. Root, James A. Dumesic, Cathy Clewett

08:30 AM

(111c) Theoretical Analysis of the Periodic Trends in the Aldol Condensation of Acetaldehyde over Isolated Metal Sites
Branden Leonhardt, Alexis Bell

08:45 AM

(111d) Aldol Condensation of Cyclopentanone and Acetone on MgO: A Mechanism Study By DFT
Bin Wang, Yu Yan, Duong T. Ngo, Daniel E. Resasco

09:00 AM

(111e) Computational Analysis of Kinetics of Ketonization and Aldol Condensation on Isolated Zirconium Sites
Alexis Bell, Lance A. Bettinson, Shylesh Sankaranarayanapilla, Martin Head-Gordon

09:15 AM

(111f) Oxygenate Reactions over PdCu/PdAg Catalyst: Role of Synergistic Effects
Tanmayi Bathena, Truc Phung, Scott Svadlenak, Konstantinos Goulas

09:30 AM

(111g) Computational Insights into the Direct Acylation of 2-Methylfuran with Acetic Acid over Phosphotungstic Acid and H-BEA Zeolite
Tso-Hsuan Chen, Stavros Caratzoulas, Omar Abdelrahman, Dionisios Vlachos

09:45 AM

(111h) Understanding Solvent and Pretreatment Effects on the Surface Chemistry of Small Oxygenates on Molybdenum Trioxide
Sean Najmi, Mathew Rasmussen, Chaoyi Chang, Giada Innocenti, Eli Stavitski, James Medlin, Andrew Medford, Carsten Sievers