CeO2-x quantum dots with massive oxygen vacancies as efficient catalysts for the synthesis of dimethyl carbonate
Zhi-Qiao Wang1, Ming-Jian Zhang, Xiao-Bing Hu
1State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, P. R. China. gcguo@fjirsm.ac.cn znxu@fjirsm.ac.cn.
Abstract:
CeO2-x quantum dots with massive oxygen vacancies are obtained by a one-step single molecular synthesis strategy. The yield of dimethyl carbonate from CO2 and methanol is more than 5 times that for commercial CeO2 nanoparticles.
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