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JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
Volume 221, Issue 1, Pages 55-61Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9517(03)00295-1
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catalytic benzylation; Friedel-Crafts alkylation; Hammett relationship; HMS; iron-containing mesoporous materials
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The alkylation of benzene with benzyl chloride has been investigated over a series of iron-containing mesoporous silicas with different Fe contents. These materials (Fe-HMS-n) have been prepared at room temperature using a route based on hydrogen bonding and self-assembly between neutral primary amine micelles (S-0) and neutral inorganic precursors (I-0). They have been characterized by chemical analysis, BET, XRD, and UV-vis spectroscopy. The mesoporous Fe-containing materials were very active benzylation catalysts with almost 100% selectivity to monoalkylated product and showed excellent stability. The kinetics of the benzene benzylation over this catalyst have been thoroughly investigated. A mechanism in which the reaction could be initiated by an oxidation of benzyl chloride with formation of a charge transfer complex is proposed. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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