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Synthesis of hierarchical ZSM-5 hexagonal cubes and their catalytic activity in the solvent-free selective oxidation of toluene

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In the present work, ZSM-5 with hexagonal cubic morphology was successfully synthesized by the hydrothermal method in the presence of tetrapropylammonium hydroxide and nonionic surfactant as mesopore template. The structural, textural, morphological and thermal properties of the as-synthesized zeolite samples were evaluated by XRD, XRF, FT-IR, N2 adsorption, HR-TEM, HR-SEM and TGA. The powder X-ray diffraction and FT-IR analysis confirms the formation of pure ZSM-5 zeolite without any impurities present. The surface area analysis showed that the mesoporous surface area was evidently increased without intensively destroying the microporosity in the surfactant-assisted zeolite. The catalytic performance of the ZSM-5 zeolites was evaluated in the liquid phase selective oxidation of toluene using tert-butyl hydroperoxide as an oxidant. The surfactant-assisted ZSM-5 shows a higher toluene conversion and benzaldehyde selectivity at optimum conditions.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are thankful to Prof. B. Viswanathan, NCCR, IIT-Madras for providing laboratory and characterization facilities to carry out this work. The authors would like to thank National center for nanoscience and nanotechnology (NCNST), University of Madras for carrying out HRTEM studies.

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  1. Catalysis and Nanomaterials Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Loyola College (Autonomous), Chennai, 600 034, India

    S. Narayanan & J. Judith Vijaya

  2. National Centre for Catalysis Research, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600 036, India

    S. Narayanan & S. Sivasanker

  3. Materials Division, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) University, Chennai Campus, Chennai, 600 127, India

    L. John Kennedy

  4. Organic Electronics, Wolfson Centre, Brunel University, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, UB 8 3PH, UK

    P. Kathirgamanathan

  5. Post Graduate Department of Zoology, Pachaiyappa’s College for Men, Kanchipuram, 631 501, Tamilnadu, India

    R. Azhagu Raj

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Narayanan, S., Vijaya, J.J., Sivasanker, S. et al. Synthesis of hierarchical ZSM-5 hexagonal cubes and their catalytic activity in the solvent-free selective oxidation of toluene. J Porous Mater 22, 907–918 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10934-015-9964-2

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