Transesterification of urea and ethylene
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Bhanage, Bhalchandra M.; Fujita, Shin-ichiro; Ikushima, Yutaka; Arai, Masahiko
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Article
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2003
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Royal Society of Chemistry
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English
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Two-step synthesis of dimethyl carbonate (DMC) from urea has been investigated with various solid catalysts. The first step involves reaction of urea with ethylene glycol (EG) to form ethylene carbonate (EC) and the second step transesterification of EC formed with methanol to give DMC and EG. It ha