Under the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.
Ethylene glycol is a kind of important chemical raw material.
In response to the above problems, the research team developed a fullerene-copper-silica catalyst (C60-Cu/SiO2), which utilizes the reversible electron transfer between copper and fullerenes to form the electron buffering effect of fullerenes (electron buffering effect), stabilized the cuprous component in the catalyst (the small red area on the surface and interface in the figure), and achieved a significant improvement in the catalytic performance of the hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate to ethylene glycol from high pressure to normal pressure.
The core of the technology lies in the complexation of fullerenes with copper catalysts
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