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Chemical Communications

Direct conversion of cellulose into ethanol catalysed by a combination of tungstic acid and zirconia-supported Pt nanoparticles†

Haiyan Song,a   Pan Wang,a   Shi Li,a   Weiping Deng, ORCID logo *a   Yanyun Li,a   Qinghong Zhang*a  and  Ye Wang ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols, Ethers and Esters, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
E-mail: dengwp@xmu.edu.cn, zhangqh@xmu.edu.cn, wangye@xmu.edu.cn

Abstract

The H2WO4−Pt/ZrO2 combination catalyses the direct conversion of cellulose into ethanol with a yield of 32% in an aqueous medium under H2. H2WO4 mainly facilitates the cleavage of C–C bonds in the glucose unit, while Pt/ZrO2 with an appropriate fraction of Pt0 and Pt2+ promotes the formation of ethanol through a selective C–O bond activation.

Graphical abstract: Direct conversion of cellulose into ethanol catalysed by a combination of tungstic acid and zirconia-supported Pt nanoparticles

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CC00619B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
23 Jan 2019
Accepted
25 Feb 2019
First published
25 Feb 2019

Chem. Commun., 2019,55, 4303-4306

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Direct conversion of cellulose into ethanol catalysed by a combination of tungstic acid and zirconia-supported Pt nanoparticles

H. Song, P. Wang, S. Li, W. Deng, Y. Li, Q. Zhang and Y. Wang, Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 4303 DOI: 10.1039/C9CC00619B

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