C-H activations of methanol and ethanol and C-C couplings into diols by zinc-indium-sulfide under visible light

Haikun Zhang; Shunji Xie; Jinyuan Hu; Xuejiao Wu; Qinghong Zhang; Jun Cheng; Ye Wang

doi:10.1039/c9cc09205f

C-H activations of methanol and ethanol and C-C couplings into diols by zinc-indium-sulfide under visible light

Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Feb 11;56(12):1776-1779. doi: 10.1039/c9cc09205f. Epub 2020 Jan 21.

Authors

Haikun Zhang¹, Shunji Xie¹, Jinyuan Hu¹, Xuejiao Wu¹, Qinghong Zhang¹, Jun Cheng¹, Ye Wang¹

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols, Ethers and Esters, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China. shunji_xie@xmu.edu.cn wangye@xmu.edu.cn.

PMID: 31960837
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc09205f

Abstract

Herein, an environmentally friendly CoP/Zn₂In₂S₅ catalyst is reported as a visible-light photocatalyst for the selective activation of the α-C-H bond of methanol to generate ethylene glycol with a selectivity of as high as 90%. The catalytic system also illustrates the first example of visible-light-driven dehydrogenative coupling of ethanol to 2,3-butanediol.