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Indexed by:Journal Papers

Date of Publication:2019-09-11

Journal:CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Included Journals:SCIE

Volume:55

Issue:70

Page Number:10420-10423

ISSN No.:1359-7345

Abstract:Herein, we have shown that the [Ca-O-P] sites exposed on hydroxyapatite are clearly responsible for C-C formation in ethanol direct-coupling, and their high density accelerates the C-C coupling rate and boosts C6-12 alcohol production. Notably, nanowire-like hydroxyapatite exhibited 30.4% selectivity to n-butanol and 63.9% selectivity to C6-12OH at a conversion of 45.7% at 325 degrees C, and thereby close to 30% yield of C6-12OH, which is greatly higher than that using the state-of-the-art catalysts (6%).