TL;DR: Gold nanoparticles supported on TiO2 or Fe2O3 catalyzed the chemoselective hydrogenation of functionalized nitroarenes with H2 under mild reaction conditions that avoided the accumulation of hydroxylamines and their potential exothermic decomposition.
Abstract: The selective reduction of a nitro group when other reducible functions are present is a difficult process that often requires stoichiometric amounts of reducing agents or, if H2 is used, the addition of soluble metals. Gold nanoparticles supported on TiO2 or Fe2O3 catalyzed the chemoselective hydrogenation of functionalized nitroarenes with H2 under mild reaction conditions that avoided the accumulation of hydroxylamines and their potential exothermic decomposition. These chemoselective hydrogenation gold catalysts also provide a previously unknown route for the synthesis of the industrially relevant cyclohexanone oxime from 1-nitro-1-cyclohexene.
TL;DR: In this article, the vapor phase Beckmann rearrangement of cyclohexanone oxime to ϵ-caprolactam and the isomerization of a-pinene to campholenic aldehyde are discussed.
TL;DR: In this paper, the rearrangement of cyclohexanone oxime to e-caprolactam was investigated over heterogeneous catalysts, especially over highly siliceous zeolites with a MFI structure.
TL;DR: An efficient synthesis of cyanoalkylated heteroarenes via iron-catalyzed direct C-H cyanoalksylation of heterOarenes has been developed andStructurally diverse cyanoALKyl motifs generated through C-C bond cleavage of cyclobutanone oxime esters have been introduced into quinoxalin-2(1H)-ones, flavone, benzothiazoles, and caffeine in good to excellent yields.
TL;DR: This study presents a synthetic pathway for the fabrication of self-supporting zeolite monoliths consisting of crystallized nanoparticles using a resorcinol-formaldehyde-based organic aerogel as a template, and silicalite-1 is used as the zeolites obtained.
Abstract: In this study, we present a synthetic pathway for the fabrication of self-supporting zeolite monoliths consisting of crystallized nanoparticles. A resorcinol-formaldehyde-based organic aerogel is used as a template, and silicalite-1 is used as the zeolite example. The silicalite-1 monoliths obtained consist of individual well-defined zeolite nanocrystals with sizes of 30-40 nm. The monoliths exhibit a high mechanical stability and have hierarchical porosity, with micropores within the zeolite particles, a mesopore system formed by the packing of the nanoparticles, and a macropore system on the monolith level. Such monolithic zeolites show high selectivity typically above 80% to epsilon-caprolactam combined with a high rate of reaction of 0.46 g(caprolactame)/(g(catalyst).h) in the Beckmann rearrangement of cyclohexanone oxime.