Superior Catalytic Performance of Mesoporous Zeolite TS-1 for the Oxidation of Bulky Organic Sulfides
Superior Catalytic Performance of Mesoporous Zeolite TS-1 for the Oxidation of Bulky Organic Sulfides
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DOI:
10.1002/cctc.201300084
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发表时间:
2013-08-01
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4.5
通讯作者:
Tang, Tiandi
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作者:
Kang, Zhenzhen;Fang, Guoyong;Tang, Tiandi
Oxidation is a fundamentally important reaction in organic synthesis.[1] Over the past few decades, transition-metal complexes, including those of titanium, molybdenum, and vanadium, have been found to be highly effective catalysts for the selective oxidation of organic compounds and have played important roles in organic synthesis.[2] However, these homogeneous catalysts suffer from several drawbacks, such as high cost, low stability, and limited reusability, which curtail their use in industrial applications. A solution to these problems is to replace the homogeneous catalysts with highly active porous solid catalysts. It is well-known that titanosilicate zeolite TS-1, as well as other titanium-containing zeolites, such as Ti-β, Ti-ZSM-12, and Ti-ZSM-48, are highly efficient catalysts for the oxidation of organic compounds.[3, 4] However, one disadvantage of these zeolite catalysts is that the pores in their frameworks are too small to be accessed by bulky reactants.[5] To overcome this limitation, Ti-containing mesoporous molecular sieves, such as Ti-MCM-41 and Ti-SBA-15, have been synthesized.[6] Unfortunately, those catalysts have shown relatively low catalytic activities, owing to the presence of hexa-coordinated titanium species.[7] In recent years, tremendous efforts have been made to synthesize mesoporous zeolite TS-1 with a crystalline framework by using nanosized carbon and amphiphilic organosilanes as templates.[8] However, the industrial application of these mesoporous zeolites is still limited by the complexity of the synthetic procedures that are involved in the use of nanosized carbon templates and by the expense of amphiphilic organosilane templates. Herein, we report a facile and universal route to mesoporous zeolite TS-1 (MTS-1) by using a mesoscale random copolymer that contains quaternary ammonium groups (RCQA-1) as a template (see section S1. 2 in the Supporting Information). Compared with mesoporous-free TS-1, the MTS-1 zeolite shows extraordinarily catalytic activity and highly controllable chemoselectivity for the oxidation of sulfides into sulfoxides or sulfones. Based on the catalytic data and density functional theory (DFT) calculations, the TiÀhydroperoxo (η2) groups are proposed to be the active sites for the oxidation of sulfides into sulfoxides and sulfones.The XRD pattern of MTS-1 exhibits well-resolved peaks within the range 4–808, consistent with a mordenite framework inverted (MFI) structure (see the Supporting Information, Figure S2). Figure 1 shows the N2 isotherm, a SEM image, and a TEM image of MTS-1. The nitrogen isotherm of calcined MTS-1 exhibits a step at a relative pressure of 0.45–0.90, which is