Chinese Journal of Catalysis ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (11): 1928-1935.DOI: 10.1016/S1872-2067(15)60955-X

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Seed-induced synthesis of small-crystal TS-1 using ammonia as alkali source

Teng Xue, Huaping Liu, Yimeng Wang, Haihong Wu, Peng Wu, Mingyuan He   

  1. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
  • Received:2015-06-09 Revised:2015-07-14 Online:2015-11-02 Published:2015-11-02
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    This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21403070 and 21373088), Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (13zz038), Key Project of the Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology (12JC1403600), National Key Technology R&D Program (2012BAE05B02), and Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (B409).

Abstract:

Small-crystal TS-1 was synthesized via a seed-induced approach using ammonia as the alkali source and tetrapropylammonium bromide as an auxiliary structure-directing agent. The TS-1 samples were characterized using X-ray diffraction, N2 adsorption-desorption, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy. The use of the colloidal seed reduced the crystal size, and an appropriate amount of silicalite-1 seed assisted Ti incorporation into the TS-1 framework. This method reduces the cost of TS-1 synthesis because a significantly smaller amount of tetrapropylammonium hydroxide is used. The catalytic performance of the synthesized small-crystal TS-1 samples in cyclohexanone ammoximation was better than that of bulk TS-1 as a result of improved diffusion and a larger number of active tetrahedral Ti centers.

Key words: Small crystal, TS-1 molecular sieve, Seed-induced synthesis, Ammonia, Catalytic oxidation, Cyclohexanone ammoximation