Creation of essential technologies to utilize carbon dioxide as a resource through the enhancement of plant productivity and the exploitation of plant products

HOME >> PRESTO >> Kiyotaka Nakajima

PRESTO

Kiyotaka Nakajima (Associate Professor, Institute for Catalysis, Hokkaido University)

Catalytic conversion of biomass-derived hydrocarbons into industrially important chemicals over solid Lewis acid

 Renewable biomass resources have the potential to serve as a sustainable supply of fuels and chemical intermediates. The purpose of this study is to develop an environmentally benign and energy effective system to convert biomass-derived carbohydrates into value-added chemical resources (furans and organic acid) by using solid catalysts.

Publication

Yusuke Koito, Kiyotaka Nakajima, Ryota Hasegawa, Hisayoshi Kobayashi, Masaaki Kitano, Michikazu Hara, Lewis acid properties of some metal salts for lactic acid formation in water: 31P NMR spectroscopy with trimethylphosphine oxide as a molecular probe, Catalysis Today, vol. 226, 198-203 (2014)

Kiyotaka Nakajima, Ryouhei Noma, Masaaki Kitano, Michikazu Hara , Selective glucose transformation by titania as a heterogeneous Lewis acid catalyst, J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem., published online October 12, 2013 (Reference number: MOLCAA-D-13-00362R1)

Kiichi Fukuhara, Kiyotaka Nakajima, Masaaki Kitano, Shigenobu Hayashi, Michikazu Hara , Synthesis and Acid Catalysis of Zeolite-Templated Microporous Carbons with SO3H Groups, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., vol. 15, 9343-9350 (2013)

Emiko Wada, Masaaki Kitano, Kiyotaka Nakajima, Michikazu Hara, Effect of preparation conditions on the structural and acid catalytic properties of protonated titanate nanotubes, J. Mater. Chem. A, vol. 1, 12768-12774 (2013)

Kiyotaka Nakajima, Ryouhei Noma, Masaaki Kitano, Michikazu Hara, Titania as an Early Transition Metal Oxide with a High Density of Lewis Acid Sites workable in Water, J. Phys. Chem. C, vol. 117, 16028-16033 (2013)

Yusuke Koito, Kiyotaka Nakajima, Masaaki Kitano, Michikazu Hara, Efficient Conversion of Pyrvic Aldehyde into Lactic Acid by Lewis Acid Catalyst in Water, Chem. Lett., vol. 42, 873-875 (2013)