- Title
- Oxovanadium (IV)-containing poly (styrene-co-4′-ethenyl-2-hydroxyphenylimidazole) electrospun nanofibers for the catalytic oxidation of thioanisole
- Creator
- Walmsley, Ryan S, Litwinski, Christian, Antunes, Edith M, Hlangothi, Percy, Hosten, Eric, McCleland, Cedric, Nyokong, Tebello, Torto, Nelson, Tshentu, Zenixole R
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/241665
- Identifier
- vital:50959
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcata.2013.07.018"
- Description
- The catalytic fibers have been fabricated by the electrospinning of a copolymer of styrene and 2-(2′-hydroxy-4′-ethenylphenyl)imidazole {p(ST-co-VPIM)} followed by a reaction with a methanolic vanadyl solution to afford the oxovanadium(IV)-containing poly(styrene-co-4′-ethenyl-2-hydroxyphenylimidazole) fibers {p(ST-co-VPIM)-VO fibers}. The relationship between polymer concentration and fiber diameter was investigated, and at high concentration (20 wt%) the fibers were quite large (average diameter of 3.8 μm) but as the concentration was reduced fibers of much lower diameter were produced (0.6 μm using 8 wt%). The BET surface area for p(ST-co-VPIM) fibers (0.6 μm diameter) was 47.9 m2 g−1 and functionalization of p(ST-co-VPIM) with vanadyl resulted in an increase in surface area to 60.7 m2 g−1 for p(ST-co-VPIM)-VO. The presence of vanadyl was confirmed by XPS and EPR. The EPR spectral analyses depicted complex speciation of vanadium within these polymer supports. These catalytic fibers were applied under batch and continuous flow conditions for the catalytic oxidation of thioanisole using hydrogen peroxide. The continuous flow method gave excellent and constant conversion throughout the 10 h period studied. The leaching of vanadium from the fiber support was 4% over the 10 h period indicating a significant stability of the material.
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- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, Walmsley, R.S., Litwinski, C., Antunes, E., Hlangothi, P., Hosten, E., McCleland, C., Nyokong, T., Torto, N. and Tshentu, Z.R., 2013. Oxovanadium (IV)-containing poly (styrene-co-4′-ethenyl-2-hydroxyphenylimidazole) electrospun nanofibers for the catalytic oxidation of thioanisole. Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 379, pp.94-102, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical volume 379 p. 94 2013 1873-314X
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Tshentu, Zenixole Richman (Dr)
Torto, Nelson (Prof)
Antunes, Edith Martins (Dr)
RU Department of Chemistry
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology
Nyokong, Tebello (Distinguished Professor)
SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being
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