Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6670097 | Journal of Saudi Chemical Society | 2017 | 25 Pages |
Abstract
Nickel-manganese mixed oxides doped with 1, 3, 5 mol% ytterbia have been prepared by co-precipitation method and used in the catalytic oxidation of benzyl alcohol. Catalytic activity of these oxides calcined at 400 °C and 500 °C was studied for selective oxidation of benzyl alcohol to the corresponding aldehyde using molecular oxygen as an oxidizing agent. The results showed that thermally stable 5 mol% ytterbia doped nickel-manganese oxide [Yb2O3-(5%)-Ni6MnO8] exhibited highest catalytic performance when it was calcined at 400 °C. A 100% conversion of the benzyl alcohol was achieved with >99% selectivity to benzaldehyde within a reaction period of 5 h at 100 °C. The mixed oxide prepared has been characterized by scanning election microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDXA), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) and temperature programed reduction (H2-TPR).
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Authors
S.S.P. Sultana, Roushown Ali, Mufsir Kuniyil, Mujeeb Khan, Abdulrahman Alwarthan, D.H.V. Kishore, M.E. Assal, K.R.S. Prasad, Naushad Ahmad, Mohammed Rafiq H. Siddiqui, Syed F. Adil,