Catalytic arene alkylation over H-Beta zeolite: Influence of zeolite shape selectivity and reactant nucleophilicity

Morphology Induced Shape Selectivity in Zeolite Catalysis

Understanding zeolite catalysis: inverse shape selectivity revised.

Anyone who has experience in moving house [the Angewandte team has just done this!] knows that those boxes filled with small books are the heaviest, because these small objects pack so easily. The same entropy effect explains the catalytic selectivity towards the formation of branched hydrocarbons in zeolites. The pink tubes represent the zeolite pores at high loading in which effective size di...

Zeolite catalyzed alkylation of toluene by alcohol

Vapor-phase methylation of toluene using methanol and its isopropylation with 2-propanol has been investigated ina down flow reactor under atmospheric conditions using N2 carrier over a series of surface modified andunmodified ZSM-5 (Si/Al= 60-170) loaded with H3PO4, differing in the external surface treatment of the zeolites.The feed molar ratios of toluene/methanol and toluene/2-propanol were...

Catalytic conversion of 1,2-dichlorobenzene over mesoporous materials from zeolite.

In this study, 1,2-dichlorobenzene (DCB), an important precursor of PCDDs and PCDFs, was chosen as a suitable model compound for the catalyzed deep oxidation of dioxin. The recently developed mesoporous materials from zeolites (MMZ) were used for the first time as a support for an oxidation catalyst. The catalytic oxidation of 1,2-dichlorobenzene over Pt/MMZ was carried out, and the catalytic a...

Hydrodeoxygenation of m-cresol over gallium-modified beta zeolite catalysts

Ga-modified H-Beta (Ga/HBEA) zeolites were evaluated and compared to other Ga-containing catalysts supported on SiO2 and ZSM-5 (MFI) for the hydrodeoxygenation of m-cresol, a model compound representative of lignin-derived phenolics. The products include toluene, benzene, xylene, light hydrocarbons, as well as phenol and other oxygenated compounds. The appearance of bicyclic compounds suggests ...