Nanostructured amorphous metals, alloys, and metal oxides as new
catalysts for oxidation*
V. Kesavan1, D. Dhar1, Y. Koltypin2, N. Perkas2,
O. Palchik2, A. Gedanken2, and S. Chandrasekaran,1**
1Department of Organic
Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; 2Department
of Chemistry, Ban-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Abstract: The oxidation of cyclohexane with molecular oxygen
in the presence of isobutyraldehyde catalyzed by nanostructured iron
and cobalt oxides and iron oxide supported on titania has been studied.
Nanostructured cobalt oxide on MCM-41 is found to be efficient for catalytic
aerobic epoxidation of olefins.
* Lectures presented at the International Symposium
on Green Chemistry, Delhi, India, 10-13 January 2001. Other presentations
are published in this issue, pp. 77-203.
** Corresponding author. Honory Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for
Advanced Scientific Research, Banglaore, India.
