公开(公告)号：US20220194914A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-23

申请号：US17400772

申请日：2021-08-12

Applicant: SHELL OIL COMPANY

Inventor： Jean-Paul Andre Marie Joseph Gislain LANGE ,  Luca Ricciardi ,  Willem VERBOOM ,  Jurriaan HÜSKENS ,  Juben Nemchand CHHEDA

IPC: C07D307/48

Abstract: Systems and method for production of furfural comprising combining a xylose-containing solution with an extraction solution comprising water-insoluble boronic acid to provide a first combined solution comprising an aqueous phase and a non-aqueous phase, said non-aqueous phase comprising xylose-diboronate ester (BA2X); combining at least a portion of the non-aqueous phase with an ionic conversion solution having a pH of less than or equal to 4 and comprising one or more salts to form a second combined solution, wherein the ionic conversion solution has a calculated molar ionic strength of at least 1, heating the second combined solution to convert at least a portion of the xylose-diboronate ester into furfural; separating the second combined solution into a second aqueous phase comprising from a second non-aqueous phase and recovering furfural from the second non-aqueous phase.