Chemsuschem Chemistry And Sustainability, Energy & Materials 2013-04-01

Catalytic conversion of cellulose to ethylene glycol over a low-cost binary catalyst of Raney Ni and tungstic acid.

Zhijun Tai, Junying Zhang, Aiqin Wang, Jifeng Pang, Mingyuan Zheng, Tao Zhang

Index: ChemSusChem 6(4) , 652-8, (2013)

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Abstract

Following our previous report on the selective transformation of cellulose to ethylene glycol (EG) over a binary catalyst composed of tungstic acid and Ru/C, we herein report a new low-cost but more effective binary catalyst by using Raney nickel in place of Ru/C (Raney Ni+H(2 WO(4) ). In addition to tungstic acid, other W compounds were also investigated in combination with Raney Ni. The results showed that the EG yield depended on the W compound: H(4)SiW(12)O(40)