Structure sensitivity of Fe(II) oxidation on palladium and platinum catalysts

The oxidation of ferrous sulfate with dioxygen, an example of an inorganic redox process in aqueous phase, has been studied on a number of carbon-supported Pd and Pt catalysts, both freshly reduced and kept for a long time after contacting with air. In the whole range of metal dispersities studied (0.10–0.75, as determined by CO chemisorption) a several-fold gradual loss of intrinsic activity has been found when increasing the dispersity. Such a decrease appeared sufficient to present volcanotype plots for the corresponding activities on a per-gram basis. It has been concluded that the metal particle size and oxidation state of the metallic surface are two independently acting factors which affect the intrinsic rate.     

Esterification of n-Butanol with Acetic Acid in the Presence of Heteropoly Acids with Different Structures and Compositions

The esterification reaction of n-butanol with acetic acid ([BuOH] : [HOAc] = 1 : 15 mol/mol; 55°C, 5% H₂O) was studied in the presence of tungsten heteropoly acids of the Keggin (H₃PW₁₂O₄₀, H₄SiW₁₂O₄₀, H₅PW₁₁TiO₄₀, H₅PW₁₁ZrO₄₀, and H₃PW₁₁ThO₃₉) and Dawson structure (-H₆P₂W₁₈O₆₂, H₆P₂W₂₁O₇₁(H₂O)₃, H₆As₂W₂₁O₆₉(H₂O), and H₂₁B₃W₃₉O₁₃₂). The reaction orders with respect to H₆P₂W₂₁O₇₁(H₂O)₃, H₃PW₁₂O₄₀, and H₆P₂W₁₈O₆₉are equal to 0.78, 1.00, and 0.97, respectively. It was found that the reaction rate depends on the acidity, as well as on the structure and composition of heteropoly acids. The H₂₁B₃W₃₉O₁₃₂heteropoly acid is most active, whereas the Keggin-structure heteropoly acids exhibit the lowest activities. Of the Keggin structure heteropoly acids, H₅PW₁₁ZrO₄₀exhibits the highest activity because of the presence of a Lewis acid site in its structure.     

Oxidation of hydrocarbons with dioxygen via peroxide intermediates

Cyclohexane, cyclohexene, and -pinene react with dioxygen in the liquid phase in the presence of catalysts based on platinum, heteropoly compounds (HPCs), metal-containing HPCs, and combinations of these components. In cyclohexane and -pinene oxidations occurring by an autooxidation mechanism at 160–170 and 80– 90°C, respectively, the catalysts serve to control free-radical processes. The simultaneous action of a Ru-containing phosphotungstate as a hydroperoxide decomposition catalyst and of a V-containing phosphotungstate as a scavenger of hydroxyl and alkoxyl radicals increases the cyclohexanol + cyclohexanone selectivity of cyclohexane oxidation without yielding a hydroperoxide. A Pt/C catalyst affords an increase in -pinene conversion in a fixed time. In combination with ammonia or tetrahexylammonium chloride admixtures, it retards side reactions and raises the yield of verbenol and verbenone, which are the most valuable products. During cyclohexane, cyclohexene, and -pinene oxidation with an O₂-H₂ mixture at room temperature, no free-radical chain reaction develops in the Pt-HPC system and reactive intermediates form and interact, involving the HPC, with hydrocarbons on the surface of the platinum catalyst. Analysis of reactivity and of the composition of substrate oxidation products suggests a mechanism for the conjugate oxidation of hydrocarbons in systems with various HPCs. In this mechanism, HPC composition determines, to a large extent, the nature of reactive intermediates, which may be peroxides or radicals bound to platinum or HPC. The properties of catalytic systems in oxidation with O₂-H₂ mixtures can be controlled by selecting an appropriate HPC as the modifying component.__________Translated from Kinetika i Kataliz, Vol. 46, No. 2, 2005, pp. 219–232.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by N. Kuznetsova, L. Kuznetsova, Kirillova, Detusheva, Likholobov, Khramov, Ansel.     

Ruthenium complexes with heteropoly anion PW11O39 7− and their redox properties

A new heteropoly complex PW₁₁Ru^IV and complexes of Ru^II, Ru^III and Ru^V based thereon have been obtained. Using specrophotometry the states of Ru^III and Ru^IV complexes in solution, the pH range of their stability, and the interaction of PW₁₁Ru^IV with ClO₄ ^–,SO₄ ^2–, Cl^– ions have been studied. A conclusion has been thus made that the ruthenium ion in such a complex is not incorporated in the heteropolyanion lattice, but is attached only to its external oxygen atoms. Kinetics of oxidation of PW₁₁Ru^IV and PW₁₁Ru^III with potassium chlorate have been studied. The activation energy and pre-exponential factor have been found for the reaction. The possibility that ClO₄ ^– and ClO₃ ^– in aqueous solutions can be activated by PW₁₁Ru^II with the former and by PW₁₁Ru^III and PW₁₁Ru^IV with the latter has been demonstrated.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, pp. 1363–1369, August, 1993.The authors wish to thank I. L. Krayevskaya and V. M. Novopashina for X-ray fluorescence and ionic chromatographic analyses, respectively.     

Interaction between Pt(IV) and Pd(II) chloro complexes in solution and on the γ-Al<Subscript>2</Subscript>O<Subscript>3</Subscript> surface

The conversions of a mixture of platinum(IV) and palladium(II) chloro complexes in aqueous solution and on the γ-Al₂O₃ surface at 25–150°C are reported. Heat treatment can initiate interaction between the complexes, both dissolved and adsorbed. The hydrolysis of the chloroplatinate ion is accelerated by the palladium chloro complex, whose composition remains unchanged.     

The use of temperature to simplify formose sugar composition

Form ose reaction, the Ca(OH)₂ catalyzed condensation of HCHO to a complex mixture of sugars, does not lose its autocatalytic nature at 98°C. The induction period is 15 sec, and then, at 18% total HCHO conversion, there was a period of approximately 3 sec duration in which the reaction had produced C₆ sugars at 84.3 wt.% selectivity. Glucose amounted to 90% of those sugars, and no branched sugars were detected. Conversion was complete within 3 min. The simple nature of the product was lost at lower temperatures or higher conversions.

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— HCHO, Ca(OH)₂, 98°C. 15 , 38%- HCHO 3 , C₆ 84,3 . %. 90%, . 3- . .

     

Liquid-phase isobutane alkylation with butenes over aluminum chloride complexes synthesized in situ from activated aluminum and <Emphasis Type="Italic">tert</Emphasis>-butyl chloride

The liquid-phase interaction between isobutane and butenes at 303 K and 2.5–3.0 MPa has been investigated using activated aluminum (Al*)-tert-butyl chloride (TBC) model system (TBC: Al* = 0.35−4 mol/mol). It has been demonstrated by attenuated total reflection FT-IR (ATR-FT-IR) spectroscopy that the catalytically active aluminum chloride complexes forming in situ in the hydrocarbon medium vary in composition. Alkylation as such takes place at equimolar proportions of the reactants (TBC: Al* = 1: 1) and butenes feed 1mass flow rate of 5 h⁻¹ per gram of Al*. According to ATR-FT-IR data, the most abundant aluminum complexes resulting under these conditions are the AlCl₄⁻ and Al₂Cl₇⁻ ions and, probably, the molecular complex AlCl₃ · sec-C₄H₉Cl. In a fourfold excess of TBC over Al* at butenes mass feed rate of 2.5 h⁻¹, isobutane undergoes self-alkylation. In this case, the Al₂Cl₇⁻ ion is not detected and the most abundant complexes are AlCl₄⁻, Al₃Cl₁₀⁻ and the molecular species AlCl₃ · tert-C₄H₉Cl. It is hypothesized that the Al₂Cl₇⁻ ion plays the key role in the liquid-phase alkylation of isobutane with butenes.     

Liquid-phase oxidation of propylene to propylene glycol acetates over Pd/C and Pt?Pd/C: Effect of platinum on catalyst activity and metal dispersity

Kinetics of oxidation of propylene to propylene glycol and its acetates in acetic acid solutions of lithium nitrate over Pd/C and Pd–Pt/C catalysts has been studied. Catalysts were investigated using X-ray phase analysis and electron microscopy. Platinum introduction into catalyst increases the metal dispersity and the catalyst stability but produces no effect on the nature of surface sites active in propylene oxidation.

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Modification of poly(vinyl chloride) with sodium salts of triazoles

New copolymers containing reactive vinyltriazole units and polyvinylene blocks with conjugation system promising as materials with special electrical, physical, catalytic, and sorption properties have been prepared by the reaction of poly(vinyl chloride) with sodium salts of 1,2,4-triazole and 1,2,3-benzotriazole in a dimethylformamide medium.     

Erratum to: Effect of High-Temperature Gas-Chemical Modification on the Structural and Functional Properties of Carbon Black Particles

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