Hot Article: Making phenol with vanadium silicalite zeolites

Changwei Hu and colleagues from Sichuan University, investigate vanadium silicalite zeolite catalysts in this Catalysis Science & Technology Hot article.

The authors particularly look at the selective oxidation of benzene to phenol with hydrogen peroxide in acetic acid as the solvent.

Read the full article to find out more about this method of making phenol…

Nature of vanadium species on vanadium silicalite-1 zeolite and their stability in hydroxylation reaction of benzene to phenol
Bin Guo, Liangfang Zhu, Xiaoke Hu, Qian Zhang, Dongmei Tong, Guiying Li and Changwei Hu
Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1CY00105A

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