Partial oxidation of toluene to benzaldehyde catalyzed by heteropoly compounds immobilized on activated carbon
摘要
The commercial production of benzaldehyde through the toluene chlorination and hydrolysis method not only releases chloride-laden effluents into the environment but also excludes its application into the field of food and medicine due to the residual chlorine. To develop a green process that produces chlorine-free product efficiently and cheaply, a keggin-type polyoxometalate designed with Co as a heteroatom, Mo, W and Mn as ligand atoms and La as a counter cation has been loaded on activated carbon to catalyze the production of benzaldehyde from the oxidation of toluene in liquid-phase by oxygen. The optimum catalyst preparation conditions are as follows: polyoxometalate loading 35%(wt), pH1 = 7.1, pH2 = 3.8, T1 = T2 = 85 °C and activated in N2 at 220 ℃ for 4 h. Characterization has been done with ICP-OES, FT-IR, XRD and TG. The polyoxometalate synthesized is proved to be Keggin-type structure. The catalyst Na4.2LaCoMn0.3W1.5Mo10.2O40·18.53H2O@AC manifests the best performance in catalyzing the production of benzaldehyde from the partial oxidation of toluene with a toluene conversion of 18.55%, benzaldehyde selectivity of 33.61% and benzaldehyde yield of 6.23%.