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Synthesis of highly monodisperse porous manganese oxide spheres using a butyric acid microemulsion
Stanton Ching1, Ian J Richter, Kathryn A Tutunjian
1Department of Chemistry, Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320, USA. sschi@conncoll.edu.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 23, 2014
Abstract:
Porous manganese oxide spheres form readily from a reaction between KMnO4 and n-butanol in aqueous butyric acid under ambient conditions. Spheres have uniform size, tuneable diameters and high surface areas. The material is an active catalyst for the oxidation of isopropanol to acetone.
