“…3 In particular, 1,3-PD is of great value in the fabrication of polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT), 4,5 a kind of ber with promising chemical resistance, light stability, elastic recovery and dyeability. However, for steric reasons, the primary hydroxyl group is cleaved more readily and most reports favored the formation of 1,2-PD, 3,[6][7][8] except for the case employing catalysts comprised of tungsten oxides [9][10][11][12][13] or Ir-Re catalysts. 14 In previous studies, tungsten species, bearing an unsaturated d-orbital, typically combined with oxygen to form tungsten oxide with highly acidic nature, played specic and signicant roles in the selective conversion of biomass.…”