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Electronic Supporting Information
Electrohydrodimerization of biomass-derived furfural generates a jet fuel precursor
Xiao Shang,a Yang Yang a and Yujie Sun a *
a Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, United States
Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Green Chemistry.This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2020
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Supplementary Fig. 1. CV curves of 10 mM furfural on Cu foam electrode in (a) 0.5 M H2SO4
(pH 0), (b) 0.1 M KPi (pH 7), and (c) 0.1 M KOH (pH 13). Scan rate: 50 mV s-1.
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Supplementary Fig. 2. 1H NMR spectra of products after electroreduction of 10 mM furfural on
carbon paper with passed charge of 10 C. Conditions: constant potential of -0.9 V for pH 0, -1.3
V for pH 7, and -1.4 V for pH 13, vs Ag/AgCl.
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Supplementary Fig. 3. 1H NMR spectra of products after electroreduction of 10 mM furfural on
Cu foam for 2 h. Conditions: constant potential of -0.7 V for pH 0, -1.3 V for pH 7, and -1.4 V for
pH 13, vs Ag/AgCl.
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Supplementary Fig. 4. Nyquist plots of electrolytes containing 10 mM furfural at -0.9, -1.4 and
1.4 V (vs Ag/AgCl) in 0.5 M H2SO4, 0.1 M KPi and 0.1 M KOH, respectively. Electrode: carbon
paper.
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Supplementary Fig. 5. Conversion efficiency of furfural and the yield/Faradaic efficiency of
hydrofuroin product on Cu foam for 2 h in electrolytes of different pHs. The theoretical charge of
full conversion of furfural requires ~14 C. The actual passed charge during electrolysis was 319.1,
31.5, 28.8 C for pH 0, 7, and 13, respectively.
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Supplementary Fig. 6. Fast scan CVs of furfural electroreduction in (a) acetonitrile (0.1 M of
tetrabutylammonium tetrafluoroborate supporting electrolyte) calibrated by ferrocene (Fc+/Fc) and
(b) 0.1 M KOH.
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Supplementary Fig. 7. CVs of furfural electroreduction varied by concentration: (a) 10 mM, (b)
20 mM, (c) 40 mM, and (d) 80 mM.
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Supplementary Fig. 8. CV plots of 0.1 M KOH on RDE varied by rotating rate.
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Supplementary Fig. 9. CV plots of electroreduction of furfural (10, 20, 40 and 80 mM in 0.1 M
KOH) varied by rotating rate: (a) 400 rpm, (b) 900 rpm, (c) 1600 rpm, and (d) 2500 rpm.
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Supplementary Fig. 10. Determination of the thermodynamic potential of furfural
electroreduction in 0.1 M KOH. (a) Square wave voltammograms of furfural in 0.1 M KOH with
different concentrations. Conditions: increase E = 5 mV, amplitude = 25 mV, frequency = 10 Hz.
(b) Simulated linear plot of potential versus concentration of furfural. Herein the thermodynamic
potential of furfural reduction in 0.1 M KOH was determined to be -1.25 V vs Ag/AgCl.
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Supplementary Fig. 11. Fit of Butler-Volmer equation derived from Figure 2b, which yielded an
electron-transfer rate constant (k0) of 0.05 cm s-1.
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Supplementary Fig. 12. HPLC traces of (a) furfural and (c) hydrofuroin. Related standard curves
of (b) furfural and (d) hydrofuroin.
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Supplementary Fig. 13. HPLC trace evolution of electroreduction of 100 mM furfural electrolysis
on carbon paper at -1.4 V vs Ag/AgCl in 10 mL of 0.1 M KOH.
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Supplementary Fig. 14. Schematic of flow electrolyzer.
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Supplementary Fig. 15. LSV curves of furfural electroreduction in a flow electrolyzer. Scan rate
= 10 mV s-1 and flow rate = 0.5 mL min-1.
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Supplementary Fig. 16. 1H NMR spectra of products from furfural electrolysis in a flow
electrolyzer at different applied voltages.