“…Besides, transesterification of DMC with ethanol or DMC with diethyl carbonate (DEC) is considered a promising method for the synthesis of EMC. Therein, various homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts have been developed, including ionic liquid, [24] TiO 2 nanofibers, [25] metal complex Co 2 (CO) 8 /W(CO) 6 , [26] KF/Al 2 O 3 , [27] carbonate phosphonium salts, [28] DBU, [29] MgO/HZSM-5, [30] Ti(OBu) 4 , Ti(OPh) 4 , Bu 2 SnO and BuSnCl 3 , [31] ZnÀ Co@N-doped carbon materials, [32] amorphous mesoporous aluminophosphate, [33] nitrogen-doped carbon/ ZnO [34] etc. However, these methods usually encounter with high reaction temperature, long reaction time, low production efficiency, poor atom economy, and challenge in the separation of products.…”