Bifunctional rhenium–copper nanostructures for intensified and stable ethanol synthesis via hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate

Zhongnan Du; Meng Chen; Xuepeng Wang; Xingkun Chen; Xiaoling Mou; Yuan Tan; Wenshao Yang; Chuanqi Huang; Hejun Zhu; Ronghe Lin; Yunjie Ding

doi:10.1039/D0CY00579G

Bifunctional rhenium–copper nanostructures for intensified and stable ethanol synthesis via hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate†

Zhongnan Du,‡^a Meng Chen,‡^b Xuepeng Wang,^a Xingkun Chen,*^a Xiaoling Mou,^a Yuan Tan,^a Wenshao Yang,^a Chuanqi Huang,^a Hejun Zhu,^b Ronghe Lin*^a and Yunjie Ding

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^a Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, 1108 Gengwen Road, Hangzhou 311231, China
E-mail: cxklned@zjnu.cn, catalysis.lin@zjnu.edu.cn

^b Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China
E-mail: dyj@dicp.ac.cn

^c The State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China

Abstract

Decorating small copper nanoparticles with isolated and/or clustered oxophilic rhenium species enables the first low-copper catalytic technology for intensified and stable ethanol production under mild conditions in dimethyl oxalate hydrogenation. Addition of rhenium induces hydrogenolysis functionality and strong electronic interactions with copper, accounting for the remarkable performance.

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Bifunctional rhenium–copper nanostructures for intensified and stable ethanol synthesis via hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate†

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