Chinese Journal of Catalysis ›› 2014, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (12): 1917-1920.DOI: 10.1016/S1872-2067(14)60216-3

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Thermoregulated phase-transfer Rh nanoparticle catalyst for selective hydrogenation of ortho-chloronitrobenzene

Zhijun Chen, Yanhua Wang, Wenjiang Li, Jingyang Jiang, Zilin Jin   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, Liaoning, China
  • Received:2014-07-26 Revised:2014-08-29 Online:2014-11-29 Published:2014-11-29
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    This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21173031) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (DUT13ZD206).

Abstract:

The use of athermoregulated phase-transfer Rh nanoparticle catalyst for the selective hydrogenation of ortho-chloronitrobenzene (o-CNB) to ortho-chloroaniline (o-CAN) in an aqueous/1-pentanol biphasic system was studied. Under the optimized reaction conditions, the conversion of o-CNB and the selectivity for o-CAN were 100% and 98%, respectively. The catalyst was easily separated from the product by phase separation and reused eight times without evident loss of activity and selectivity.

Key words: Thermoregulated ligand, Rhodium nanoparticle, Ortho-chloronitrobenzene, Selective hydrogenation, Aqueous/1-pentanol biphasic system