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Concurrent Synthesis of Dimethyl Carbonate and Ethylene Glycol via Transesterification of Ethylene Carbonate and Methanol Using Smectite Catalysts Containing Mg and/or Ni

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Smectites containing magnesium and/or nickel in the lattice were found to be excellent heterogeneous catalysts for the concurrent synthesis of dimethyl carbonate and ethylene glycol by transesterification of ethylene carbonate with methanol. The catalytic activity strongly depends on the elemental composition of the catalysts and is correlated with the number of moderately basic sites present on the catalyst.

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  1. Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan

    Bhalchandra M. Bhanage, Shin-ichiro Fujita, Yanfeng He & Masahiko Arai

  2. CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Japan

    Bhalchandra M. Bhanage, Yutaka Ikushima & Masahiko Arai

  3. Supercritical Fluid Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Sendai, 983-8551, Japan

    Yutaka Ikushima & Kazuo Torii

  4. Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan

    Masayuki Shirai

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Bhanage, B.M., Fujita, Si., He, Y. et al. Concurrent Synthesis of Dimethyl Carbonate and Ethylene Glycol via Transesterification of Ethylene Carbonate and Methanol Using Smectite Catalysts Containing Mg and/or Ni. Catalysis Letters 83, 137–141 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021065409888

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