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Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
; 55(9): 3068-72, 2016 Feb 24.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26823027
RESUMO
Ceria catalyzes the one-step production of the vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) from ethylene with a high yield because of its bifunctional character: redox centers oxychlorinate ethylene to ethylene dichloride (EDC), which is subsequently dehydrochlorinated to VCM over strong acid sites generated inâ situ. Nanocrystalline CeO2 and CeO2-ZrO2 lead to a VCM yield of 25 % in a single pass, outperforming the best reported systems and reaching industrially attractive levels. The use of CeO2 intensifies the current two-step process within PVC production encompassing CuCl2 -catalyzed oxychlorination and thermal cracking. In addition, ceria-based materials offer stability advantages with respect to the archetypical CuCl2 -based catalysts.