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Titanium-silica catalyst derived from defined metallic titanium cluster precursor : Synthesis and catalytic properties in selective oxidations. / Evangelisti, Claudio; Guidotti, Matteo; Tiozzo, Cristina et al.
In: Inorganica Chimica Acta, Vol. 470, 30.01.2018, p. 393-401.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Titanium-silica catalyst derived from defined metallic titanium cluster precursor
T2 - Synthesis and catalytic properties in selective oxidations
AU - Evangelisti, Claudio
AU - Guidotti, Matteo
AU - Tiozzo, Cristina
AU - Psaro, Rinaldo
AU - Maksimchuk, Nataliya
AU - Ivanchikova, Irina
AU - Shmakov, Alexandr N.
AU - Kholdeeva, Oxana
PY - 2018/1/30
Y1 - 2018/1/30
N2 - A class of titanium-grafted mesoporous silica catalysts has been designed and prepared starting from molecularly defined metal clusters. The organosol mixture of zerovalent Ti13 clusters was impregnated onto the surface of ordered mesoporous silica molecular sieves (MCM-41 and MMM-2) and, after high-temperature calcination, an evenly dispersed non-single-site Ti(IV)nOx-like silica-supported catalyst was obtained. The catalytic solids, fully characterized by microscopic, spectroscopic and porosimetric techniques, showed standard performance in the liquid-phase epoxidation of a cyclic alkene, as limonene, but remarkably high selectivity values in the oxidative carboxylation of styrene, with tert-butylhydroperoxide and carbon dioxide in the presence of tetrabutylammonium bromide as a cocatalyst. Unprecedented high yields, up to 67%, in styrene carbonate were achieved after 24 h, under solvent-free conditions. The catalysts displayed also a noteworthy stability of the performance to repeated recovery and reuse cycles.
AB - A class of titanium-grafted mesoporous silica catalysts has been designed and prepared starting from molecularly defined metal clusters. The organosol mixture of zerovalent Ti13 clusters was impregnated onto the surface of ordered mesoporous silica molecular sieves (MCM-41 and MMM-2) and, after high-temperature calcination, an evenly dispersed non-single-site Ti(IV)nOx-like silica-supported catalyst was obtained. The catalytic solids, fully characterized by microscopic, spectroscopic and porosimetric techniques, showed standard performance in the liquid-phase epoxidation of a cyclic alkene, as limonene, but remarkably high selectivity values in the oxidative carboxylation of styrene, with tert-butylhydroperoxide and carbon dioxide in the presence of tetrabutylammonium bromide as a cocatalyst. Unprecedented high yields, up to 67%, in styrene carbonate were achieved after 24 h, under solvent-free conditions. The catalysts displayed also a noteworthy stability of the performance to repeated recovery and reuse cycles.
KW - Alkene epoxidation
KW - Heterogeneous catalysis
KW - Mesoporous silica
KW - Oxidative carboxylation
KW - Titanium clusters
KW - ACTIVE-SITES
KW - MOLECULAR-SIEVES
KW - SILSESQUIOXANE COMPLEXES
KW - CYCLOHEXENE EPOXIDATION
KW - SITE HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSTS
KW - LIQUID-PHASE
KW - SINGLE-SITE
KW - ALTERNATING COPOLYMERIZATION
KW - FINE CHEMICALS
KW - MESOPOROUS SILICA
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85024501978&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ica.2017.06.059
DO - 10.1016/j.ica.2017.06.059
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85024501978
VL - 470
SP - 393
EP - 401
JO - Inorganica Chimica Acta
JF - Inorganica Chimica Acta
SN - 0020-1693
ER -
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