Acid-free methoxycarbonylation
A pocket-like Mo-S-Pt₁-S-Mo ensemble on MoS₂ enables ethylene methoxycarbonylation without liquid acid, outperforming reported heterogeneous catalysts by an order of magnitude.
Wang, An · Zhang, Leilei · Zhounan, Yu · Zhang, Shengxin · Li, Lin · Ren, Yujing · Liu, Xiaoyan · Liu, Wei · Yang, Xiaofeng · Zhang, Tianyu · Wang, Aiqin
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023