Ambient-pressure synthesis of ethylene glycol catalyzed by C

Authors: Jianwei Zheng, Lele Huang, Cun-Hao Cui, Zuo-Chang Chen, Xu-Feng Liu, Xinping Duan, Xin-Yi Cao, Tong-Zong Yang, Hongping Zhu, Kang Shi, Peng Du, Si-Wei Ying, Chang-Feng Zhu, Yuan-Gen Yao, Guo-Cong Guo, Youzhu Yuan, Su-Yuan Xie, Lan-Sun Zheng

Published: 2022-04-14

DOI: 10.1126/science.abm9257

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Abstract

Bulk chemicals such as ethylene glycol (EG) can be industrially synthesized from either ethylene or syngas, but the latter undergoes a bottleneck reaction and requires high hydrogen pressures. We show that fullerene (exemplified by C