| Tomer, Ajay, Wyrwalski, Frédéric, Przybylski, Cédric, Paul, Jean-François, Monflier, Eric, Pera-Titus, Marc and Ponchel, Anne 2017. Facile preparation of Ni/Al2O3 catalytic formulations with the aid of cyclodextrin complexes: Towards highly active and robust catalysts for the direct amination of alcohols. Journal of Catalysis 356 , pp. 111-124. 10.1016/j.jcat.2017.10.006 |
Abstract
A series of Ni/Al2O3 catalysts with variable Ni loading (2–20 wt%) were prepared by aqueous wet impregnation of a nitrate precursor using native cyclodextrins as metal complex hosts. The impact of β-CD was carefully characterized at different stages of the preparation by a set of complementary techniques including TG-MS analysis, mass spectrometry, X-ray diffraction, temperature-programmed reduction, CO pulse chemisorption, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and electron microscopy. It was found that the use of cyclodextrins afforded a much higher Ni dispersion and narrower distribution of Ni particle sizes, as well as a much higher availability of reduced surface Ni species. As a result, the cyclodextrin-assisted catalysts exhibited enhanced catalytic properties in the direct amination of benzyl alcohol with aniline and 1-octanol with ammonia, both operated via the hydrogen borrowing mechanism. Furthermore, the use of cyclodextrins allowed a significant improvement of the robustness of the catalysts by mitigating the nickel leaching during reaction.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Chemistry Research Institutes & Centres > Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI) |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0021-9517 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 5 October 2017 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jan 2021 14:45 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/137457 |
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