Catalysts for Selective Oxidation of Methyl Aromatic Hydrocarbons
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Catalytic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2022) | Viewed by 250
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Selective oxidation of Methyl aromatic hydrocarbons and Catalytic wet air oxidation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the gradual changes in the globe energy supply structure, refineries with increasing production scale tend to provide more high value-added chemical raw materials. Toluene and xylene are the important refining products and basic raw materials for chemical production. Treated by chemical methods such as oxidation, nitration, and chlorination, series of methyl aromatic hydrocarbons with different functional groups can be obtained accordingly, which supports almost the entire fine chemical industry. Selective oxidation is one of the most important ways to functionalize methyl aromatic hydrocarbons by conversion of methyl hydrocarbons into carbon-oxygen bonds to produce oxidation products, such as aromatic alcohols, aromatic aldehydes(ketone), and aromatic acids, which are widely used in food, medicine, pesticides, dyes and other fields. The classic Co/Mn/Br catalyst is widely used industrial process and acts as a basis to develop new catalysts for the oxidation of toluene derivatives. The active radical species are generated in the presence of redox metal catalysts, making it difficult to control product selectivity. Over the years, lots of researches have been performed to find efficient, convenient, and high performance catalysts for selective oxidation of methyl aromatic hydrocarbons by oxygen, to obtain prominent selectivity and yield. These tasks are very important and worthy of attention.
Prof. Dr. Feng Zhang
Dr. Rafael L. Oliveira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- selective oxidation
- catalysts
- methyl aromatic hydrocarbons
