Efficient Ru–Fe catalyzed selective hydrogenolysis of carboxylic acids to alcoholic chemicals

Wenjing Li, Linmin Ye, Long Pei, Jin Chen, Hiroko Ariga, Kiyotaka Asakura, Youzhu Yuan

RSC Advances · 2014 · 39 citations · 35 references

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A bimetallic nanocatalyst Ru–Fe/SBA-15 shows remarkable ability to catalyze selective hydrogenolysis of carboxylic acids to alcoholic chemicals and the optimized catalyst is stable for the hydrogenolysis of acetic acid to ethanol with high catalytic performance for 300 h.

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