Evolution of a Metal-Organic Framework into a Brønsted Acid Catalyst for Glycerol Dehydration to Acrolein

Xiaomin Li1, Liang Huang1, Alena Kochubei2

  • 1Department of Chemistry, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, P. R. China.

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|July 16, 2020
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