Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Issue: 91

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Publication date(s): 2018 (online)

Pages: 12875-12878

Volume: 54 Issue: 91

Journal: Chemical Communications

Link: /en/content/articlepdf/2018/CC/C8CC07444E

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8CC07444E

At high loading, methanol reacts under ambient conditions with acidic hydroxyls of H-ZSM-5 to methoxylate framework oxygen; while a significant proportion remains hydrogen bonded to the framework with a protonated geometry. The findings not only explain the data which have been published so far, but also pave a way forward for potential unravelling of the initial reaction steps in the relevant chemical processes.