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Efficient Synthesis of Polyfunctionalized Benzenes in Water via Persulfate-promoted Benzannulation of α,β-Unsaturated Compounds and Alkynes
Published on: December 16, 2019
Highly Efficient Production of Benzene-Free Aromatics from Methanol over Low-Si/Al-Ratio Alkali-Modified Fe/Zn/HZSM-5
Bahram Ghanbari1, Fatemeh Kazemi Zangeneh1, Zahra Taheri Rizi2
1Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, P.O. Box 1458881267, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract:
Herein, the methanol conversion to aromatic hydrocarbons was studied over a new family of mesoporous low-silica HZSM-5 (Si/Al = 11) catalysts in a fixed-bed tubular reactor under ambient pressure at 375 °C, feeding with weight hourly space velocity of 2 h-1. The catalysts were prepared in the absence and presence of Zn and Fe in both alkaline and neutral aqueous solutions, characterized by using X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, temperature programmed desorption of ammonia, N2 adsorption/desorption, thermogravimetric analysis, Fourier-transform infrared, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), field emission scanning electron microscopy and FE-SEM/energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy techniques. The [0.2Fe,0.3Zn]-alk-HZSM-5 catalyst exhibited novel selectivity for aromatics (>86 wt %), specifically for m and p-xylenes (44.7 wt %) alongside 0.1 wt % for benzene.
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