The production of oxygenates such as esters from alcohols is an attractive route to high value industrial chemicals [1]. Although acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling has been reported in homogeneous systems [2, 3] as well as in heterogeneous systems involving supported platinum [4] and copper [5] phases, these still require use of expensive and/or complicated synthesis procedures. Moreover, detailed investigation of a nanoparticulate catalyst for this application has not been reported. In this work, the conversion of neat ethanol to ethyl acetate at equilibrium conversion and high selectivity will be reported along with exploration into the coupling behavior of higher alcohols, polyols, and amines on this class of materials. The materials are characterized with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and diffuse reflectance Fourier Transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS). 1. Nielsen M., Junge, H., Kammer, A., Beller, M., Ang. Chem., 51, (2012) 5711 2. Spasyuk, D., Gusev, D. G., Organometallics, 31, (2012) 5239 3. Srimani, D., Balaraman, E., Gnanaprakasam, B., Ben-David, Y., Milstein, D., Adv. Synth. & Cat., 354, (2012) 2403 4. Santacesaria, E., Carotenuto, G., Tesser, R., Di Serio, M., Chem. Eng. J., 179, (2012) 209 5. Wang, L.X., Zheng, D.F., Ma, C.X., Zhu, W.C., Liu, S.Y., Cui, J., Wang, Z.L., Zhang, W.X., Polish J. Chem., 83, (2012) 1993

Nanoparticulate catalysts for acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling reactions

251st National Meeting (2016)

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