“…The copper-based catalysts, such as Cu-Si [2][3][4][5][6], Cu-Ti and Cu-Zr [3,7], Cu-La, Cu-Y and Cu-Ce [7], Cu-Cr [6,8], Cu-Al [9], Cu-Cement [10], Cu-Zn-Si [6], Cu-ZnCr [11], Cu-Zn-Al [12], Cu-Zr-Zn and Cu-Zr-Zn-Al [13], Cu-Cr-Na [14], Cu-La-Mn and Cu-La-Ti [15], Cu-Zn-Al-Na [16], Cu-Si-Mg-Ba-Cr-Zn [17], behave very high activity and selectivity for the dehydrogenation of methanol to methyl formate. The uniqueness of copper may be associated with its ability for sequential hydrogen removal from methanol and other oxygencontaining fragments stopping just before carbon monoxide formation [15].…”