Heterogeneously Catalyzed Oxidation Reactions Using ... - CHEC
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2.3 Selective liquid‐phase oxidation reactions<br />
found that metallic silver can be activated by treatment in air with molecular oxygen at 500 °C (entry<br />
18) [69] which was confirmed in a recent study (entry 19) [71]; however, air treatment did not bulk‐<br />
oxidize silver. The complex interaction of silver with oxygen and thus the formation of stable silver‐<br />
subsurface oxygen (so‐called γ‐oxygen) species might account for the prominent change in reactivity<br />
[74, 75, 115, 116]. These species are also connected to the catalytic activity in gas phase methanol<br />
oxidation [73].<br />
Palladium is a highly active metal in alcohol oxidation. Combinations of Pd and Ag supported<br />
on pumice were tested for benzyl alcohol oxidation [69]. Addition of Ag to Pd/pumice dramatically<br />
decreased the alcohol oxidation activity. On the other hand, Ag/pumice and Pd/pumice applied as a<br />
physical mixture exhibited a remarkable synergistic effect. Leaching of the metal species as a source<br />
for this observation was not investigated. Similarly, the addition of CeO2 nanoparticles to Ag/SiO2<br />
increased the benzyl alcohol conversion more than ten‐fold [71]. High reaction temperatures were<br />
required and the catalytic activity was only moderate likely connected to the poor Ag dispersion;<br />
here, EXAFS analysis significantly underestimated particle sizes (2‐3 nm) while TEM and XRD agreed<br />
well suggesting particle sizes around 30 nm. However, 10 % Ag/SiO2 was similarly active as gold<br />
catalysts (containing only 1 wt.‐% gold thus giving higher TOFs) and exhibited high selectivity. Details<br />
on this study can also be found in Chapter 3. Later, Ag catalysts synthesized via flame‐spray pyrolysis<br />
with smaller Ag particles (cf. Figure 2‐7) resulted in similar TOFs [90]. CeO2 turned out to be a<br />
general, easily applicable dopant, i.e. also Au/TiO2, Au/Al2O3, Au/ZnO and Pd/Al2O3 exhibited a<br />
significantly higher catalytic performance when used with nanosized ceria. The effect of the dopant<br />
was assumed to be via direct physical contact; leaching of either Ag or Ce species could be excluded.<br />
No alcohol dehydrogenation activity was observed under anaerobic conditions. Silver in combination<br />
with vanadium is a frequently used oxidation catalyst. Also silver‐exchanged molybdovanado<br />
phosphoric acid showed considerable catalytic activity for the selective oxidation of various allylic<br />
alcohols with moderate to high selectivity. Neither leaching nor deactivation was observed. Both<br />
silver and copper can interact with TEMPO and thus mediate alcohol oxidation. Due to steric<br />
constraints, primary alcohols are most susceptible to reaction. In the presence of peroxodisulfate,<br />
the oxidation of sugars proceeded at room temperature [107], CuCl2 dissolved in an ionic liquid used<br />
in a SILP catalyst required low reaction temperatures (65 °C) with O2 as the oxidant [108].<br />
Finally, it should be noted that the aerobic N‐acylation of amines with methanol (methanol<br />
thus being oxidized) is also facilitated by coinage metal catalysts, i.e. with supported Au<br />
nanoparticles [117], copper hydroxyl salts as heterogeneous catalysts [56] and principally also by<br />
metallic silver surfaces [118]. The acylation occurs via transformation of methanol to H2 and CO2<br />
reacting with the amine. [119]<br />
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