Siddarth Krishna


Contactkrishna3@wisc.edu

Status: Fifth-year Ph.D. student (co-advised with Prof. George Huber)

Research Summary

My research focus is on the upgrading of bio-derived intermediates to valuable chemicals using heterogeneous metal and acid catalysts.

Publications:

1. S. H. Krishna, M. De bruyn, Z. R. Schmidt, B. M. Weckhuysen, J. A. Dumesic, G. W. Huber, “Catalytic Production of Hexane-1,2,5,6-tetrol from Bio-renewable Levoglucosanol in Water: Effect of Metal and Acid Sites on (Stereo)-Selectivity”, Green Chemistry (accepted).

2. S. H. Krishna, K. Huang, K. J. Barnett, J. He, C. T. Maravelias, J. A. Dumesic, G. W. Huber, M. De bruyn and B. M. Weckhuysen, "Oxygenated commodity chemicals from chemo‐catalytic conversion of biomass derived heterocycles," AIChE Journal, 2018, 64, 1910-1922 (cover article).

3. S. H. Krishna, R. S. Assary, Q. A. Rashke, L. A. Curtiss, J. A. Dumesic, G. W. Huber, “Mechanistic insights into the hydrogenolysis of levoglucosanol over bifunctional platinum silica-alumina catalysts”. ACS Catalysis, 2018, 3743-3753.

4. S. H. Krishna, D. J. McClelland, Q. A. Rashke, J. A. Dumesic and G. W. Huber, "Hydrogenation of levoglucosenone to renewable chemicals," Green Chemistry, 2017, 19, 1278-1285. (inside front cover)

5. S. H. Krishna*, T. W. Walker*, J. A. Dumesic and G. W. Huber, "Kinetics of Levoglucosenone Isomerization," ChemSusChem, 2017, 10, 129-138. *equal contributions.

6. F. Cao, T. J. Schwartz, D. J. McClelland, S. H. Krishna, J. A. Dumesic and G. W. Huber, "Dehydration of cellulose to levoglucosenone using polar aprotic solvents," Energy & Environmental Science, 2015, 8, 1808-1815.

7. J. He, K. Huang, K. J. Barnett, S. Krishna, D. Martin Alonso, Z. Brentzel, S. P. Burt, T. W. Walker, W. Banholzer, C. T. Maravelias, I. Hermans, J. Dumesic and G. Huber, "New catalytic strategies for alpha-omega diol production from lignocellulosic biomass," Faraday Discussions, 2017, 202, 247-267.

8. S. Shylesh, D. Hanna, J. Gomes, S. Krishna, C. G. Canlas, M. Head-Gordon and A. T. Bell, "Tailoring the Cooperative Acid–Base Effects in Silica-Supported Amine Catalysts: Applications in the Continuous Gas-Phase Self-Condensation of n-Butanal," ChemCatChem, 2014, 6, 1283-1290.

9. D. G. Hanna, S. Shylesh, Y.-P. Li, S. Krishna, M. Head-Gordon and A. T. Bell, "Experimental and Theoretical Study of n-Butanal Self-Condensation over Ti Species Supported on Silica," ACS Catalysis, 2014, 4, 2908-2916.