Selective conversion of coconut oil to fatty alcohols in methanol over a hydrothermally prepared Cu/SiO2 catalyst without extraneous hydrogen

  • Liubi Wu
  • , Lulu Li
  • , Bolong Li
  • , Chen Zhao*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A novel one-pot approach selects a hydrothermally synthesized Cu/SiO2 catalyst (consisting of Cu2O·SiO2 and Cu0 surface species) to catalyze the reduction of a series of fatty esters, fatty acids, and coconut oil to fatty alcohols at 240 °C in methanol without extraneous hydrogen, attaining around 85% conversion and 100% selectivity.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)6152-6155
Number of pages4
JournalChemical Communications
Volume53
Issue number45
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

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