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Investigation into the mechanism of polyoxotungstates-catalyzed cyclooctene epoxidation by ESI-MS

  • Linyuan Fan
  • , Yayu Hong
  • , Jie Cao*
  • , Changwen Hu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beijing Institute of Technology

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Abstract

The reaction process of cyclooctene epoxidation was real-time monitored by ESI-MS using H3PW12O40 and H2WO4 as catalysts. By observing the species changes of the catalysts in the reaction solutions and the combination of catalysts with the substrate, a catalytic reaction mechanism of polyoxometalate clusters was proposed from the aspect of aggregation and dissociation. When H3PW12O40 was used as the catalyst, it was degraded into minor peroxo-species [PW4O16-x(O2)x]3- (x = 0, 2, 4, 6, 8) which performed as the active center of the epoxidation of cyclooctene. When H2WO4 was used as the catalyst, it reacted with H2O2 and generated mononuclear tungsten peroxo-species [HWO2(O2)2]- and [HWO2(O2)3]-. After the addition of cyclooctene, the peroxo-species catalyzed the epoxidation of cyclooctene, generating 1,2-epoxycyclooctane and combining with 1,2-epoxycyclooctane to form the intermediate [HW2(O2)2O5(C8H14O)2]-.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)56656-56660
Number of pages5
JournalRSC Advances
Volume6
Issue number61
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

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