Synthesis of methyl glycolate by hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate with a P modified Co/SiO2 catalyst

Zailang Zhuang; Yihui Li; Fang Chen; Xingkun Chen; Zheng Li; Shiyi Wang; Xuepeng Wang; Hejun Zhu; Yuan Tan; Yunjie Ding

doi:10.1039/d1cc07003g

Synthesis of methyl glycolate by hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate with a P modified Co/SiO₂ catalyst

Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Feb 8;58(12):1958-1961. doi: 10.1039/d1cc07003g.

Authors

Zailang Zhuang¹, Yihui Li², Fang Chen³, Xingkun Chen¹, Zheng Li¹, Shiyi Wang¹, Xuepeng Wang¹, Hejun Zhu², Yuan Tan¹, Yunjie Ding^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Hangzhou Institute of Advanced studies, Zhejiang Normal University, 1108 Gengwen Road, Hangzhou 311231, China. dyj@dicp.ac.cn.
² Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China.
³ Central Research Institute of China Chemical Science and Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing 100083, China.
⁴ The State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China.

PMID: 35043789
DOI: 10.1039/d1cc07003g

Abstract

A P-modified Co/SiO₂ catalyst was reported for the first time in the selective hydrogenation of dimethyl oxalate (DMO) to methyl glycolate (MG) reaction and the synthesized Co₈P/SiO₂ exhibited 94.6% conversion of DMO and 88.1% selectivity to MG during a 300 h continuous test. The doping element of P in the catalyst was indispensable and played an important role in improving the catalytic performance of the Co/SiO₂ catalyst.