Volume 152, 2011

Oxidative coupling of alcohols on gold: Insights from experiments and theory

Abstract

Molecular level understanding of the mechanism of oxidative coupling of alcohols on metallic Au(111) activated by oxygen is achieved through a combination of experiments and theoretical calculations. The facility of the β–H elimination of the alkoxys, which increases with the length of the alkyl chain, is identified to be critical in determining the product distributions. Dioxymethylene serves as a formaldehyde reservoir in the cross-coupling reaction between methanol and formaldehyde through its reversible formation and decomposition, contributing to the high selectivity for the coupling products.

  • This article is part of the themed collection: Gold

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 Feb 2011
Accepted
22 Mar 2011
First published
10 Aug 2011

Faraday Discuss., 2011,152, 307-320

Oxidative coupling of alcohols on gold: Insights from experiments and theory

B. Xu and C. M. Friend, Faraday Discuss., 2011, 152, 307 DOI: 10.1039/C1FD00015B

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