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Transition Metal-Promoted Carbon-Silicon Solid Acid Catalysts for the Synthesis and Process Optimization of
Xiaoxiang Han1, Shuifen Yang1, Ziyi Chen1
1Department of Applied Chemistry, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, 310018, P. R. China.
Abstract:
A series of transition metal (M)-promoted carbon-silicon (C-M-Si; M=Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Zr) solid acid catalysts with designated molar ratio of M/Si=1 : 8 were fabricated and exploited for acetalization of benzaldehyde (BzH) with ethylene glycol (EG). The physical and chemical properties of these C-M-Si catalysts prepared by sol-gel method were characterized by various techniques, namely, SEM, EDS, TGA-DTG, BET, XRD, FTIR, XPS, and NH3 -TPD. Among various examined acidic C-M-Si catalysts, the C-Fe-Si catalyst exhibited the optimal catalytic activity with the benzaldehyde glycol acetal (BEGA) yield of 97.67 %, in excellent agreement with the value (97.88 %) predicted by the response surface methodology (RSM) based on a Box-Behnken design (BBD). C-Fe-Si catalyst with the high catalytic activities and excellent stability and reusability may be ascribed to the suitable acidity and uniform surface distribution of active sites requisite for the acid-catalyzed acetalization reaction.
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