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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 9, Issue 40, Pages 23061-23070Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9ra04348a
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- Zhejiang Science and Technology Plan Project [2017C37054]
- Zhejiang Ministry of Science and Technology
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The oxidative cleavage of vegetable oils and their derivatives to produce bio-based aldehydes is a potentially useful process, although the aldehyde products are readily oxidized to carboxylic acids and thus seldom obtained in high yields. The present study developed a room-temperature method for the synthesis of bio-aldehydes via the oxidative cleavage of vegetable oil-derived epoxides, using H2WO4 as the catalyst, H2O2 as the oxidant, and t-BuOH as the solvent. Reactions were carried out at temperatures ranging from 25 to 35 degrees C for 3.5-10.5 h, and provided >99% conversion and >90% aldehyde yield. In particular, an approximately 97% yield was obtained at 25 degrees C after 10.5 h. As the reaction proceeded, the H2WO4 dissolved to form a W-containing anion. Several mesoporous Al-MCM-41 materials having different Si/Al ratios were hydrothermally synthesized and used as adsorbents to recover the catalyst by adsorbing these anions. The adsorption capacity of the Al-MCM-41 was found to increase with decreases in the Si/Al ratio. The Al-MCM-41 had little effect on the oxidative cleavage reaction at 25 degrees C, and thus could be directly added to the reaction system. The excellent anion adsorption performance of the Al-MCM-41 greatly improved the reusability of the H2WO4 catalyst. When using the Al-MCM-41 with the best adsorption performance, there was no significant decrease in the activity of the catalyst following five reuses.
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