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Environmentally Friendly Photocatalytic Oxidation of Aromatic Alcohol to Aldehyde in Aqueous Suspension of Brookite TiO2

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Photocatalytic oxidation of 4-methoxybenzyl alcohol to aldehyde in water has been achieved by using home-prepared uncalcined brookite TiO2. Three different lamp irradiances have been applied in order to check the influence of light power on selectivity. Well known commercial samples (Degussa P25 and Merck) have been used for comparison purposes. A maximum selectivity towards aldehyde of ca. 56% (i.e. ca. 3 times higher than that obtained with commercial TiO2) has been achieved.

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Addamo and Augugliaro are grateful to Dr. Fabio D’Agostino (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica dei Processi e dei Materiali, Università degli Studi di Palermo) for his technical support on Raman spectroscopy measurements.

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  1. “Schiavello-Grillone” Photocatalysis Group, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica dei Processi e dei Materiali, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 90128, Palermo, Italy

    Maurizio Addamo, Vincenzo Augugliaro, Marianna Bellardita, Agatino Di Paola, Vittorio Loddo, Giovanni Palmisano, Leonardo Palmisano & Sedat Yurdakal

  2. Kimya Bölümü, Fen Fakültesi, Anadolu Üniversitesi, Yunus Emre Kampüsü, 26470, Eskisehir, Turkey

    Sedat Yurdakal

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Addamo, M., Augugliaro, V., Bellardita, M. et al. Environmentally Friendly Photocatalytic Oxidation of Aromatic Alcohol to Aldehyde in Aqueous Suspension of Brookite TiO2 . Catal Lett 126, 58–62 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-008-9596-0

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