Yu Bowen, Zhang Wenna, Wei Yingxu, Wu Xinqiang, Sun Tantan, Fan Benhan, Xu Shutao, Liu Zhongmin
National Engineering Laboratory for Methanol to Olefins, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, P. R. China.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Jul 21;56(58):8063-8066. doi: 10.1039/d0cc02408b.
The evolution of retained species during the whole methanol-to-olefins process was revealed with the aid of GC-MS, thermogravimetric analysis (TG) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Precise routes for the transformation of retained methylbenzenes to methylnaphthalenes were proposed, based on the direct capture of three possible organic intermediates, to explain the catalyst deactivation procedure.
