Efficient methanol upcycling to ethylene glycol and glycolaldehyde via divergent C−C coupling synthesis

• Qi, M.-Y. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3937-1987
• Tan, C.-L. https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2934-4243
• Tang, Z.-R. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6564-3539
• Conte, M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1399-0344
• Sun, Y. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6351-6977
• Xu, Y.-J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2195-1695

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• Submitted: 3 June 2025
• Accepted: 6 February 2026
• Published (online): 16 February 2026
• Published: 16 February 2026

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