2,5-Furandicarboxylic acid

FDCA

White solid

Fixed

320 ° C

419.2 ° C

Soluble in DMSO, dimethylformamide, and acetic acid

Attention

980 mg · kg -1 ( LD50, rat, oral)

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2,5- furandicarboxylic acid is a dicarboxylic acid, which can be produced by dehydration and oxidation of glucose to 5- HMF. Because of their similarity to terephthalic acid can be used as raw material of PET - like biopolymer PEF ( Polyethylenfuranoat ). In chemistry Chemelot at Geleen, the Netherlands is already a pilot plant.

Synthesis

2,5- furandicarboxylic acid may be obtained by selective oxidation of 5 -HMF to platinum catalysts.

There are also the possibilities of biotransformation and the dehydration of the mucus acid. 1876 ​​Rudolph Fittig took this path in the first synthesis of 2,5- furan dicarboxylic acid.