@article{ffc8611940a04667993fa697b7ae3851,
title = "Acceptorless Dehydrogenative Coupling of Neat Alcohols Using Group VI Sulfide Catalysts",
abstract = "Group VI sulfides were synthesized via coprecipitation of elemental sulfur and metal hexacarbonyl and characterized with XRD, XPS, and TEM. These materials were then demonstrated as active catalysts for the acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling of neat ethanol to ethyl acetate, rapidly reaching equilibrium conversion and up to 90% selectivity. Other primary alcohols form the corresponding esters, while diols formed the corresponding cyclic ethers and oligomers.",
keywords = "Aqueous, Esters, Ethanol, Molybdenum sulfide, Organic acids, Oxidative dehydrogenation",
author = "McCullough, {Lauren R.} and Childers, {David J.} and Watson, {Rachel A.} and Kilos, {Beata A.} and Barton, {David G.} and Eric Weitz and Kung, {Harold H.} and Notestein, {Justin M.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by the Dow Chemical Company. This work made use of the J. B. Cohen X-ray Diffraction Facility supported by the MRSEC program of the National Science Foundation (DMR-1121262) at the Materials Research Center of Northwestern University. This XPS work was performed in the Keck-II facility of NUANCE Center at Northwestern University. The NUANCE Center is supported by NSEC (NSF EEC-0647560), the Keck Foundations, the State of Illinois, and Northwestern University. This work made use of the EPIC facility of the NUANCE Center at Northwestern University, which has received support from the Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource (NSF NNCI-1542205); the MRSEC program (NSF DMR-1121262) at the Materials Research Center; the International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN); the Keck Foundation; and the State of Illinois, through the IIN. Metal analysis was performed at the Northwestern University Quantitative Bioelement Imaging Center. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 American Chemical Society. Copyright: Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2017",
month = jun,
day = "5",
doi = "10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b00303",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "5",
pages = "4890--4896",
journal = "ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering",
issn = "2168-0485",
publisher = "American Chemical Society",
number = "6",
}
