Photo splitting of bio-polyols and sugars to methanol and syngas

Min Wang; Meijiang Liu; Jianmin Lu; Feng Wang

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14915-8

Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Photo splitting of bio-polyols and sugars to methanol and syngas

Min Wang,
Meijiang Liu,
Jianmin Lu,
Feng Wang

Affiliations

Min Wang: State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Meijiang Liu: State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jianmin Lu: State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Feng Wang: State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14915-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Methanol and syngas are important fuels and chemicals, which are presently produced from fossil resources. Here, the authors report the conversion of biomass-derived polyols and sugars into methanol and syngas via UV light irradiation under room temperature.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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