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Selective suppression of disproportionation reaction in solvent-less benzyl alcohol oxidation catalysed by supported Au-Pd nanoparticles

Cao, E; Sankar, M; Nowicka, E; He, Q; Morad, M; Miedziak, PJ; Taylor, SH; ... Hutchings, GJ; + view all (2013) Selective suppression of disproportionation reaction in solvent-less benzyl alcohol oxidation catalysed by supported Au-Pd nanoparticles. Catalysis Today , 203 146 - 152. 10.1016/j.cattod.2012.05.023. Green open access

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Abstract

Disproportionation of benzyl alcohol has been identified as the source of toluene formation in the solvent free oxidation of benzyl alcohol using supported gold palladium catalysts. There is a slight increase in the disproportionation reaction, and hence the toluene selectivity, when this reaction is performed in a continuous mode using a micro-packed bed reactor when compared to the same reaction performed in a conventional glass stirred batch reactor. Oxidation and disproportionation reactions respond slightly differently to the changes in reaction parameters, like oxygen concentration and pressure, when a micro packed bed reactor was used instead of a conventional glass stirred reactor. When MgO supported gold–palladium catalysts were used for this reaction, the toluene selectivity reduced substantially at the cost of conversion.

Type: Article
Title: Selective suppression of disproportionation reaction in solvent-less benzyl alcohol oxidation catalysed by supported Au-Pd nanoparticles
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2012.05.023
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2012.05.023
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords: Gold palladium catalysts, Alcohol oxidation, Benzyl alcohol oxidation
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1376988
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