Rare earth exchanged (Ce3+, La3+ and RE3+) H-Y zeolites as solid acid catalysts for the synthesis of linear alkyl benzenes

Thomas, Bejoy and Das, Bibhuti B and Sugunan, S (2006) Rare earth exchanged (Ce3+, La3+ and RE3+) H-Y zeolites as solid acid catalysts for the synthesis of linear alkyl benzenes. In: Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 95 (1-3). pp. 329-338.

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Abstract

Rare earth exchanged H–Y zeolites were prepared by simple ion exchange methods at 353 K and have been characterized using different physicochemical techniques. A strong peak around 58 ppm in the 27Al{1H} MAS NMR spectra of these zeolites suggests a tetrahedral coordination for the framework aluminium. Small peak at or near 0 ppm is due to hexa-coordinated extra-framework aluminium and a shoulder peak near 30 ppm is a penta-coordinated aluminium species; [Al(OH)4]−. The vapor-phase benzene alkylation with 1-decene and 1-dodecene was investigated with these catalytic systems. Under the reaction conditions of 448 K, benzene/olefin molar ratio of 20 and time on stream 3 h, the most efficient catalyst was CeH–Y which showed more than 70% of olefin conversion with 48.5% 2-phenyldecane and 46.8%, 2-phenyldodecane selectivities with 1-decene and 1-dodecene respectively.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Microporous and Mesoporous Materials
Publisher:	Elsevier
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	03 Aug 2010 06:52
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 06:12
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/30883

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