{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["9(1)"],"submitter":["Xie S"],"pubmed_abstract":["The development of new methods for the direct transformation of methanol into two or multi-carbon compounds via controlled carbon-carbon coupling is a highly attractive but challenging goal. Here, we report the first visible-light-driven dehydrogenative coupling of methanol into ethylene glycol, an important chemical currently produced from petroleum. Ethylene glycol is formed with 90% selectivity and high efficiency, together with hydrogen over a molybdenum disulfide nanofoam-modified cadmium sulfide nanorod catalyst. Mechanistic studies reveal a preferential activation of C-H bond instead of O-H bond in methanol by photoexcited holes on CdS via a concerted proton-electron transfer mechanism, forming a hydroxymethyl radical (⋅CH2OH) that can readily desorb from catalyst surfaces for subse"],"journal":["Nature communications"],"pagination":["1181"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5862904"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Visible light-driven C-H activation and C-C coupling of methanol into ethylene glycol."],"pmcid":["PMC5862904"],"pubmed_authors":["Jiang Z","Deng D","Shen Z","Ma C","Zhang H","Deng J","Wang Y","Xie S","Guo P","Zhang Q","Cheng J"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Visible light-driven C-H activation and C-C coupling of methanol into ethylene glycol.","description":"The development of new methods for the direct transformation of methanol into two or multi-carbon compounds via controlled carbon-carbon coupling is a highly attractive but challenging goal. Here, we report the first visible-light-driven dehydrogenative coupling of methanol into ethylene glycol, an important chemical currently produced from petroleum. Ethylene glycol is formed with 90% selectivity and high efficiency, together with hydrogen over a molybdenum disulfide nanofoam-modified cadmium sulfide nanorod catalyst. Mechanistic studies reveal a preferential activation of C-H bond instead of O-H bond in methanol by photoexcited holes on CdS via a concerted proton-electron transfer mechanism, forming a hydroxymethyl radical (⋅CH2OH) that can readily desorb from catalyst surfaces for subse","dates":{"release":"2018-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2018 Mar","modification":"2025-04-19T15:19:36.727Z","creation":"2019-03-26T23:20:35Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5862904","cross_references":{"pubmed":["29563511"],"doi":["10.1038/s41467-018-03543-y"]}}