Abstract
Methanol is likely to become increasingly important both as a fuel and as a chemical feedstock [1]. There has recently been much excitement over the conversion of methanol to hydrocarbons, especially aromatics [2]. The subject of this paper is the conversion of methanol to formaldehyde. All formaldehyde is currently produced from methanol, and there are no new routes to formaldehyde on the horizon.
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Machiels, C.J., Chowdhry, U., Staley, R.H., Ohuchi, F., Sleight, A.W. (1984). Formaldehyde from Methanol. In: Herman, R.G. (eds) Catalytic Conversions of Synthesis Gas and Alcohols to Chemicals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2737-0_21
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