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Solvent-Free and Metal-Free Oxidation of Toluene Using O2 and g-C3N4 with Nanopores: Nanostructure Boosts the Catalytic Selectivity

Journal

ACS CATALYSIS
Volume 2, Issue 10, Pages 2082-2086

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/cs300413x

Keywords

heterogeneous catalysis; mesoporous materials; nanostructures; nitrides; selective oxidation

Funding

  1. L2H project of BMBF
  2. EnerChem project
  3. UNICAT project
  4. AvH Foundation

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Solvent-free oxidation of the primary C-H bonds in toluene to benzaldehyde has been achieved by using the metal-free catalyst g-C3N4 and O-2. It is the nanostructure of g-C3N4 that boosts the high selectivity by tuning the homogeneous oxidation to hetergeneous oxidation and capturing all free center dot O-2(-) radicals to effectively suppress the overoxidation of aldehydes.

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