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Alcohol-Selective Oxidation in Water under Mild Conditions via a Novel Approach to Hybrid Composite Photocatalysts
Leonardo PalmisanoVittorio LoddoRosaria CiriminnaFrancesco ParrinoAli A. Abd-elaalAli A. Abd-elaalMario Pagliarosubject
nanostructurePhotochemistryAldehydecompositesSilver nanoparticleCatalysischemistry.chemical_compoundphotocatalysinanostructuresPhenolcompositechemistry.chemical_classificationSettore ING-IND/24 - Principi Di Ingegneria ChimicaFull Papertitanium dioxidealcohol oxidation; composites; nanostructures; photocatalysis; titanium dioxide; Chemistry (all)Chemistry (all)alcohol oxidationGeneral ChemistryFull PapersCatalytic oxidationchemistryAlcohol oxidationTitanium dioxidePhotocatalysisSettore CHIM/07 - Fondamenti Chimici Delle Tecnologiephotocatalysisdescription
Abstract The oxidation of alcohols to carbonyl compounds in a clean fashion (i.e., with water as a solvent or under solvent‐free conditions, and using O2 or H2O2 as the primary oxidant) is the subject of considerable research efforts. A new approach for the selective oxidation of soluble aromatic alcohols in water under mild conditions via a novel composite photocatalyst has been developed. The catalyst is synthesized by grafting 4‐(4‐(4‐hydroxyphenylimino)cyclohexa‐2,5dienylideneamino)phenol and silver nanoparticles onto the surface of moderately crystalline titanium dioxide. The titanium dioxide‐based composite was first extensively characterized and then employed in the catalytic oxidation of 4‐methoxybenzyl alcohol to 4‐methoxybenzaldehyde under UV irradiation in water at room temperature. The corresponding aldehyde was obtained with unprecedented high selectivity (up to 86 %). The method is general and opens the route to fabrication of photocatalytic composites based on titanium dioxide functionalized with shuttle organic molecules and metal nanoparticles for a variety of oxidative conversions.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2015-01-01 |