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Temperature-controlled phase-transfer catalysis for ethylene glycol production from cellulose
Zhijun Tai1, Junying Zhang, Aiqin Wang
1State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Dalian 116023, China.
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%.

