Published January 11, 2022 | Version v1
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Recent Advances in Catalytic Conversion of Toluene to Benzonitrile

  • 1. aInnovation Research Center for Fuel Cells, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan
  • 2. bGraduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo-182-8585, Japan
  • 3. cPhilipps Universität Marburg, Fachbereich Chemie, 35032 Marburg, Germany

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Abstract

Ammoxidation of alkyl aromatics is a simple gas-phase reaction that yields aromatic nitriles. These nitriles, especially benzonitrile have versatile applications. This chapter project focuses on the ammoxidation of toluene: catalysts employed in industrial and lab-scale, significance and challenges, and mechanistic approaches; we have also tried to provide comparative studies of the mechanisms involved with the variable-valence transition metals (Mars-Van Krevelen mechanism) and confined single alkali metal ions within Y-zeolite pores involving acid-base catalysis.

 

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