Researchers improve efficiency of ethanol-to-butanol conversion with new bifunctional catalyst

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By mmillikinDec 4, 2015, 5:00 am250 pts
Researchers at the University of Rochester and the University of Ottawa (Canada) have developed a highly selective (>99%) tandem catalytic system—a bifunctional iridium catalyst coupled with bulky nickel or copper hydroxides—for the conversion of ethanol (up to 37%) to n-butanol, through the Guerbet…

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