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CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 53, Issue 9, Pages 1518-1521Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6cc09050h
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91545116, 21573137]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi [2014011014-3]
- Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion [J13-14-913]
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To understand the mechanism of the photocatalytic direct synthesis of 1,1-diethoxyethane (DEE) from ethanol is vital for enhancing the reaction efficiency. Based on photocatalytic data of different phase TiO2 and F-TiO2 catalysts, radical trapping data, and GC-MS data, we proposed a photocatalytic mechanism for the preparation of both DEE in neat ethanol and 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BD) in ethanol-H2O using photocatalytic-methods. In neat ethanol, hydroxyl isn't involved in the catalytic cyclic process but hydroxyl has an indirect siteholding effect, thus leading to more hydroxyl groups with higher activity. In ethanol-H2O, although the strong oxidant (OH)-O-center dot radical is involved, fewer OH groups lead to higher selectivity of 2,3-BD. The interaction of the reactant/solvent with the surface group of the catalyst is important in the activity and selectivity of photocatalytic reactions. This finding gives fundamental insight into the role of TiO2 surface hydroxyl in the photocatalytic dehydrogenation process of alcohols and opens a promising path to obtaining both high selectivity and high conversion in TiO2-based photocatalytic activity.
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