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Hydroxymethylation of furfuryl alcohol with aqueous formaldehyde, yiel
ding selectively 2,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)furan, has been carried out in
the presence of various dealuminated H-form mordenites. The best resul
ts expressed in terms of both selectivity (greater than or equal to 95
%) and conversion (greater than or equal to 70%) are obtained over H-M
OR 100 catalyst (0.25 g) using a furfuryl alcohol/formaldehyde molar r
atio of 0.009 after short reaction times (less than or equal to 30 min
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