Highly selective and recyclable vanadium‑promoted Mg–Sr–Al oxide catalyst for n‑butanol ethoxylation
Sara Heidari Goudarzi, Vahid Javanbakht, Sayyed Ali Monajemi, Maryam Mehrabi · 2026
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Description
Sara Heidari Goudarzi and three co-authors published a catalysis study in twenty twenty-six on making the solvent 2-butoxyethanol more cleanly. The glycol ether is produced by reacting n-butanol with ethylene oxide, and the catalyst decides how much of the output is the wanted product. The team built a mixed metal oxide promoted with vanadium.
Under mild conditions, the new catalyst converted about seventy-one percent of the butanol with about sixty-eight percent selectivity to the target. That beat both its unpromoted base oxide and the standard potassium hydroxide used industrially. Careful characterization linked the gain to better surface and texture properties. The solid catalyst can also be recovered and reused, easing purification downstream.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sara Heidari Goudarzi, Vahid Javanbakht, Sayyed Ali Monajemi, Maryam Mehrabi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |