- Temperature-controlled phase-transfer catalysis for ethylene glycol production from cellulose.
Temperature-controlled phase-transfer catalysis for ethylene glycol production from cellulose.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2012-06-09)
Zhijun Tai, Junying Zhang, Aiqin Wang, Mingyuan Zheng, Tao Zhang
PMID22678506
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%.