Pine Wood Powder Treatment to BXH+ Homogeneous Catalyst (H+/H2SO4) Supported on Its Aromatics’ and PNA’ Alkenes – Application in Black Citric Acid Polymer Synthesis

For a long time, many chemical reactions drew on catalysts, products used in smallest quantities compared to products-reagents, to accelerate their kinetics. In certain cases, one of the determining factors to improve these catalysts activities is the use of supports allowing dispersions and thereafter the effectiveness of its active sites.. It is the goal of our study, to increase the pine wood powders value like support of active acid H+ sites of sulphuric acid molecules by hydrogen bond connection with alkenes of aromatics and polynuclear aromatics which were pine wood components and their derivatives obtained after sulphuric acid solution (98%) treatment. Among these derivatives we quote water molecules formed during dehydration and esterification of wood components. Thus, we obtained homogeneous catalysts BXH+, (H+/H2SO4) supported on pine wood powder which we tested by a test reaction: citric acid dehydration to prop-1-ene 1, 2, 3 acid- tricarboxylic acid. Also, the active acid sites (H+/H2SO4) contents and alkenes on BXH+ catalysts were quantified by measuring out respectively with NaOH 0.05N and hydrofluoric acid (HF). This last measuring out enabled us to evaluate the nature of the aromatics and polynuclear aromatics which were the real supports contained in pine wood. At the end, we used these BXH+ synthesized catalysts to catalyze the citric acid black polymer synthesis (PN). The soluble coke and insoluble coke in polar solvent dichloromethane and non-polar solvent hexane of citric acid black polymer synthesized by each catalyst were quantified