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A Green Route to Cyclohexanone: Selective Oxidation of Cyclohexanol Promoted by Non-precious Catalyst of h-WO3 Nanorods

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Cyclohexanone is an important intermediate for the fabrication of synthetic polymers such as Nylon in chemical industry. A green synthesis of cyclohexanone under mild conditions using environmental friendly oxidants and non-precious catalysts is highly desired. Herein, one-dimensional crystalline h-WO3 nanorods have been synthesized via a facile hydrothermal method. The h-WO3 nanorods are assembled by the closely packed and highly aligned thin nanowires with the lengths up to 10 μm and diameters of about 10 nm, growing along the [001] direction. The h-WO3 nanorods are used as the catalyst for the first time in the selective oxidation of cyclohexanol to cyclohexanone by aqueous hydrogen peroxide. The effective catalysis by h-WO3 nanorods remarkably increases the yield of cyclohexanone from 3.1 to 78.6 %, under the mild conditions (80 °C, ambient pressure). With a high recyclability, the h-WO3 nanorods have shown great potentials in green chemistry for the synthesis of cyclohexanone by the catalytic oxidation of cylohexanol.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC Grants: 91534102, 21176054 and 21271058). This work is also supported by Science and Technology Project of Anhui Province (1501021013) and Intelligent Manufacturing Institute of Hefei University of Technology (IMICZ2015104).

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      Lei Wang, Zhangxian Chen, Mengqiu Huang, Zeheng Yang, Pan Sun, Kai Wang & Weixin Zhang

    2. Anhui Key Laboratory of Controllable Chemical Reaction & Material Chemical Engineering, 230009, Hefei, China

      Lei Wang, Zhangxian Chen, Mengqiu Huang, Zeheng Yang, Pan Sun, Kai Wang & Weixin Zhang

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    Wang, L., Chen, Z., Huang, M. et al. A Green Route to Cyclohexanone: Selective Oxidation of Cyclohexanol Promoted by Non-precious Catalyst of h-WO3 Nanorods. Catal Lett 146, 1283–1290 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-016-1751-4

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