Conversion of lignin feedstocks into fragrant chemical compounds is a extremely fascinating goal for biorefineries, and their depolymerization typically requires excessive temperatures and harsh situations. On this work, a course of optimization involving a number of elements, together with catalyst dosage, response temperature, response time, oxygen stress and solvent impact, in the direction of vanillin manufacturing from the oxidation of lignin-based vanillyl alcohol in a base-free solvent over a LaFeO3 perovskite was proposed. The outcomes pronounced that the LaFeO3 perovskite exhibited glorious catalytic efficiency for affording a 100.0% conversion price of vanillyl alcohol and 33.0% vanillin yield with the addition of 0.1 g LaFeO3 dosage at 180 °C for two h beneath 1.0 MPa O2 provide in ethyl acetate solvent. Moreover, the presence of oxygen vacancies (Fe3+–□–Fe2+) within the LaFeO3 perovskite contributed to combining with molecular oxygen to generate the lively species [Fe3+O2−], which performed a key function within the oxidation of vanillyl alcohol and dominated the formation pathway of vanillin. Alternatively, reusability checks manifested that the efficiency of LaFeO3 decreased progressively with the rise of consecutive runs and was strongly negatively associated to the quantity of carbon deposits, as carbon deposits would forestall vanillyl alcohol from being accessible to lively websites. However, the efficiency of the spent LaFeO3 catalyst may very well be simply regenerated by a easy calcination strategy. Total, this work supplies the opportunity of a scalable technique for developing LaFeO3-based perovskites as environment friendly and reusable catalysts for vanillin manufacturing from biorefinery lignin.
