Solvent-free catalytic oxidation of benzyl alcohol over Au-Pd bimetal deposited on TiO2: comparison of Rutile, Brookite, and Anatase

Li, Xiaoliang, Feng, Jiangjiang, Sun, Jia, Wang, Zhe and Zhao, Wei 2019. Solvent-free catalytic oxidation of benzyl alcohol over Au-Pd bimetal deposited on TiO2: comparison of Rutile, Brookite, and Anatase. Nanoscale Research Letters 14 (1) , -. 10.1186/s11671-019-3211-8

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Abstract

TiO2 (P25)-supported Au-Pd bimetal nanoparticles displayed excellent performance in the solvent-free benzyl alcohol catalytic oxidation. However, little research attention has been paid to investigate the effects of TiO2 form on the catalytic activity of Au-Pd/TiO2. In the present research, rutile, brookite, and anatase TiO2 were successfully synthesized and subsequently applied as the carrier to load Au-Pd nanoparticles by the deposition-precipitation method. The experimental results indicated that the benzyl alcohol conversion employing the rutile TiO2-supported Au-Pd catalyst is higher than the conversion of anatase and brookite TiO2-loaded Au-Pd catalysts. However, the Au-Pd/TiO2-rutile displayed the lowest and highest selectivity toward benzaldehyde and toluene, respectively. ICP-AES, XRD, XPS, and TEM were conducted to characterize these catalysts. The corresponding experimental results revealed that the excellent performance of Au-Pd/TiO2-rutile catalyst was attributed to both the smaller Au-Pd nanoparticle size distribution and the higher concentrations of Oα and Pd2+ species on the catalyst surface. In the recycle experiments, the Au-Pd/TiO2-rutile catalyst displayed lower reaction stability compared with the Au-Pd/TiO2-anatase and Au-Pd/TiO2-brookite, which might be due to the coverage of larger amount of aldehyde products on the surface.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Chemistry
Publisher:	SpringerOpen
ISSN:	1931-7573
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	7 January 2020
Date of Acceptance:	27 December 2019
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2024 04:35
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/128271

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