Molybdenum carbide as an efficient catalyst for low-temperature hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate

Yanting Liu; Jian Ding; Jiaqiang Sun; Juan Zhang; Jicheng Bi; Kefeng Liu; Fanhua Kong; Haicheng Xiao; Yanping Sun; Jiangang Chen

doi:10.1039/C6CC01709F

Molybdenum carbide as an efficient catalyst for low-temperature hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate†

Yanting Liu,^ab Jian Ding,^ab Jiaqiang Sun,^a Juan Zhang,^a Jicheng Bi,^a Kefeng Liu,^c Fanhua Kong,^c Haicheng Xiao,^c Yanping Sun^d and Jiangang Chen*^a

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^a State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan, China
E-mail: chenjg@sxicc.ac.cn

^b University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

^c PetroChina Petrochemical Research Institute, Beijing 100195, China

^d Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China

Abstract

Silica-supported molybdenum carbide (Mo₂C/SiO₂) is found to be a highly active, selective and stable catalyst for the hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate to ethanol at low temperatures (473 K). Moreover, the formation of ethanol over the Mo₂C catalyst performs via the novel intermediate methyl acetate instead of ethylene glycol forming over the Cu catalyst.

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Molybdenum carbide as an efficient catalyst for low-temperature hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate†

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