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New Sn-Ti microspheres were first successfully synthesized by a PVP-assisted sol-gel method in this paper, and their performance in the B–V oxidation of cyclohexanone was investigated. The XRD, N2 sorption, SEM, Py-IR, UV–Vis, XPS, EDX, Elemental mapping and TEM characterization techniques were utilized to investigate their physical and chemical properties. Based on the proposal possible formation mechanism, in the MTS-x sample synthesis procedure, the introduction of PVP as a stabilizer and dispersant can coordinate the hydrolysis rate of two different precursors resulting in the hindrance of their agglomerations. And the HDA as a precipitation accelerator and morphology control agent can be beneficial to the formation of spheres by increasing the hydrogen-bonding interactions. The MTS-12 as well as the weight percent of tin to titanium species of 12 with specific regular microspheres has the highest cyclohexanone conversion of 97.8% and the highest ε-caprolactone selectivity of 98.2%, which is better than the bulk Sn-TiO2 catalyst even though that the weight percent of tin to titanium species was 18. The catalysts with higher accessible active sites and shorter diffusion channels would provide a valuable theoretic reference for the industrial process of the B–V oxidation of cyclohexanone for the preparation of caprolactone.
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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2019YFD1101204); University-Industry Cooperation Projects of Jiangsu Province (No. BY20200011) and Open Project of Beijing Key Laboratory for Enze Biomass and Fine Chemicals.
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Liu, C., Zhou, Z., Qin, J. et al. PVP-assisted Sn-Ti microspheres for the efficient B–V oxidation of cyclohexanone. J Porous Mater 28, 1215–1225 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10934-021-01068-2
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