岡山大学環境理工学部研究報告 ISSN 2187-6940
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Liquid Phase Oxidation of Benzene to Phenol with Molecular Oxygen using Carbon-based Fe-Pd and Cu-Pd Catalyst

Uddin Md. Azhar
Tanihara Manbu
Muto, Akinori
Sakata, Yusaku
Published Date
2006-03-15
Abstract
Liquid phase oxidation of benzene to phenol was carried out with O(2) using carbon-based Fe-Pd and Cu-Pd catalysts at 40℃. The carbon-based Fe-Pd and Cu-Pd catalyst were prepared by modified carbothermal reduction of metal ion exchange method using cation exchange resin as a source of carbon. Fe/carbon, Cu/carbon and Pd/carbon were not effective for the oxidation of benzene to phenol with O(2) when H(2) was used as a catalyst reducing agent, however both Fe/carbon and Cu/carbon catalysts revealed activities when ascorbic acid was used as a reducing agent. Bimetallic catalysts such as Fe-Pd/carbon and Cu-Pd/carbon showed much higher activity for phenol production than the monometallic catalysts even when H(2) was used a reducing agent. Catalytic activity of Fe-Pd catalyst was much (ca. 2.5 times) higher than the Cu-Pd/catalyst. A physical mixture of the single component catalysts such as Fe and Pd or Cu and Pd were not effective in the oxidation of benzene to phenol, suggesting that an intimate contact between Fe or Cu species with Pd species is necessary to formulate an active catalyst.
Keywords
oxidation of benzene
synthesis of phenol
metal-carbon catalyst
ISSN
1341-9099
NCID
AN10529213
NAID
JaLCDOI