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CHEMCATCHEM
Volume 10, Issue 5, Pages 1035-1041Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201701538
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autoxidation; doping; heterogeneous catalysis; nanoparticles; sustainable chemistry
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We study the allylic oxidation of cyclohexene with O-2 under mild conditions in the presence of transition-metal catalysts. The catalysts comprise nanometric metal oxide particles supported on porous N-doped carbons (M/N:C, M=V, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Nb, Mo, W). Most of these metal oxides give only moderate conversions, and the majority of the products are over-oxidation products. Co/N:C and Cu/N:C, however, give 70-80% conversion and 40-50% selectivity to the ketone product, cyclohexene-2-one. Control experiments in which we used free-radical scavengers show that the oxidation follows the expected free-radical pathway in almost all cases. Surprisingly, the catalytic cycle in the presence of Cu/N:C does not involve free-radical species in solution. Optimisation of this catalyst gives >85% conversion with >60% selectivity to the allylic ketone at 70 degrees C and 10bar O-2. We used SEM, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and XRD to show that the active particles have a cupric oxide/cuprous oxide core-shell structure, giving a high turnover frequency of approximately 1500h(-1). We attribute the high performance of this Cu/N:C catalyst to a facile surface reaction between adsorbed cyclohexenyl hydroperoxide molecules and activated oxygen species.
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