Sustainable production of benzene from lignin

Efficient production of benzene from lignin is attractive and of great importance, but has not been realized. Here, the authors develop a strategy to transform lignin into benzene over a RuW/zeolite catalyst in water, and the yield of benzene can be as high as 18.8% on lignin weight basis.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Qinglei Meng, Jiang Yan, Ruizhi Wu, Huizhen Liu, Yang Sun, NingNing Wu, Junfeng Xiang, Lirong Zheng, Jing Zhang, Buxing Han
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24780-8