A weakly basic Co/CeOx catalytic system for one-pot conversion of cellulose to diols: Kungfu on eggs

Chuang Li; Guangyue Xu; Kui Li; Chenguang Wang; Ying Zhang; Yao Fu

doi:10.1039/C9CC04020J

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A weakly basic Co/CeO_x catalytic system for one-pot conversion of cellulose to diols: Kungfu on eggs†

Chuang Li,‡^a Guangyue Xu,‡^a Kui Li,^a Chenguang Wang,^b Ying Zhang

*^ac and Yao Fu

*^ac

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^a Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Biomass Clean Energy, iChEM, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
E-mail: fuyao@ustc.edu.cn, zhzhying@ustc.edu.cn

^b CAS Key Lab of Renewable Energy, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, CAS, Guangzhou 510640, China

^c Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, 457 Zhongshan Rd, Dalian 116011, China

Abstract

A controlled, weakly basic Co/CeO_x catalyst was designed for one-pot conversion of cellulose to ethylene glycol (EG) and 1,2-propylene glycol (1,2-PG) to achieve near-equivalent yield. The efficiency is mainly attributed to Coⁿ⁺–O_x–Ce³⁺ base–acid pairs that hindered humin formation by ensuring a precise balance across the various steps of the reaction.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CC04020J
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 24 May 2019
Accepted: 05 Jun 2019
First published: 06 Jun 2019

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Chem. Commun., 2019,55, 7663-7666

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A weakly basic Co/CeO_x catalytic system for one-pot conversion of cellulose to diols: Kungfu on eggs

C. Li, G. Xu, K. Li, C. Wang, Y. Zhang and Y. Fu, Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 7663 DOI: 10.1039/C9CC04020J

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