Herein, a comparative analysis of two case example catalysts for electrocatalytic hydrogenation (ECH) furfural under acidic conditions, namely copper polycrystalline disc and nanoparticles dispersed on carbon support, is performed. To gain detailed insight ECH trends, task-specific methodology employed based electrochemistry–mass spectrometry coupling, which enabled time- potential-resolved det...

Commercially available Purolite CT151 demonstrated to be an efficient acid catalyst for the synthesis of alkyl levulinates via alcoholysis furfuryl alcohol (FA) at mild temperatures (80–120 °C) and short reaction time (5 h). Reaction conditions were first optimized ethyl levulinate then tested preparation methyl-, propyl-, isopropyl-, butyl, sec-butyl- allyl levulinate. Preliminary scale-up tes...