OD41 Aerobic Cyclohexane Oxidation over Supported Gold Catalysts; New mechanistic insight by thorough product analysis

Wednesday, June 8, 2011: 1:50 PM
Ambassador Ballroom 1 (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Bart P. C. Hereijgers and Bert M. Weckhuysen, Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
In this contribution we show that the promising results on gold-catalyzed aerobic cyclohexane oxidation, as reported on in a variety of recent publications, are obscured by an inaccurate product analysis. A detailed mechanistic study provided proof for a radical-chain oxidation mechanism, which inevitably causes severe by-product formation and low selectivity.

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