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Chemical Communications

Amorphous oxide as a novel efficient catalyst for direct selective oxidation of methanol to dimethoxymethane†

Sébastien Royer,‡a   Xavier Sécordel,a   Markus Brandhorst,b   Franck Dumeignil,*a   Sylvain Cristol,a   Christophe Dujardin,a   Mickaël Capron,a   Edmond Payena  and  Jean-Luc Dubois*b  

* Corresponding authors

a Unité de Catalyse et de Chimie du Solide, UMR CNRS 8181, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France
E-mail: Franck.Dumeignil@univ-lille1.fr
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b Arkema, 420 Rue d'Estienne d'Orves, 92705 Colombes, France
E-mail: jean-luc.dubois@arkema.com
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Tel: +33 (0)4.72.39.85.11

Abstract

We report for the first time the use of an amorphous oxide catalyst for the selective oxidation of methanol in the gas phase, leading at 553 K to the production of dimethoxymethane with a selectivity as high as 90% at high methanol conversion (68%).

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B714260A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
17 Sep 2007
Accepted
03 Dec 2007
First published
20 Dec 2007

Chem. Commun., 2008, 865-867

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Amorphous oxide as a novel efficient catalyst for direct selective oxidation of methanol to dimethoxymethane

S. Royer, X. Sécordel, M. Brandhorst, F. Dumeignil, S. Cristol, C. Dujardin, M. Capron, E. Payen and J. Dubois, Chem. Commun., 2008, 865 DOI: 10.1039/B714260A

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