Fig. 7: Proposed reaction mechanism and illustration of the overall EG production process. | Nature Communications

Fig. 7: Proposed reaction mechanism and illustration of the overall EG production process.

From: Photocatalytic synthesis of ethylene glycol and hydrogen from methyl tert-butyl ether

Fig. 7

a Proposed mechanism for the highly efficient MTBE dehydrogenative coupling to MTBE dimer and H2. b Illustration of the green transformation of methanol to EG and H2 developed by this work. The condensation of methanol and tert-butanol to form MTBE can be realized under mild conditions as has been extensively reported60,61.

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