Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Direct functionalization of methane into ethanol over copper modified polymeric carbon nitride via photocatalysis

  • Yuanyi Zhou,
  • Ling Zhang,
  • Wenzhong Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08454-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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While methane is a simple, abundant feedstock for chemical industry, the selective and facile conversion to more-complex products is challenging. Here, authors show copper-containing polymeric carbon nitride to convert methane to ethanol using light under mild conditions.