Issue 56, 2012
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Chemical Communications

Temperature-controlled phase-transfer catalysis for ethylene glycol production from cellulose†

Zhijun Tai,ab   Junying Zhang,ab   Aiqin Wang,a   Mingyuan Zhenga  and  Tao Zhang*a  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Dalian 116023, China
E-mail: taozhang@dicp.ac.cn
Fax: +86 411-84691570
Tel: +86 411-84379015

b Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China

Abstract

A temperature-controlled phase-transfer catalyst—tungsten acid, which in combination with a robust heterogeneous catalyst Ru/C shows a high activity and exceptional reusability for the one-pot conversion of cellulose to ethylene glycol. This binary system can be reused more than 20 times with ethylene glycol yield over 50%.

Graphical abstract: Temperature-controlled phase-transfer catalysis for ethylene glycol production from cellulose

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC32305B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
30 Mar 2012
Accepted
23 May 2012
First published
24 May 2012

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 7052-7054

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Temperature-controlled phase-transfer catalysis for ethylene glycol production from cellulose

Z. Tai, J. Zhang, A. Wang, M. Zheng and T. Zhang, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 7052 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC32305B

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