Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Creating solvation environments in heterogeneous catalysts for efficient biomass conversion

  • Qi Sun,
  • Sai Wang,
  • Briana Aguila,
  • Xiangju Meng,
  • Shengqian Ma,
  • Feng-Shou Xiao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05534-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Solvents play important roles in chemical transformations, but isolating products from solvents is cumbersome and energy-consuming. Here, the authors develop promising alternatives by anchoring the solvent moieties onto porous materials for creating solvation environments in heterogeneous catalysts for efficient biomass conversion.