%0 Journal Article %T SynthesisofNickelHexacyanoferrateNanoparticlesandTheirPotentialasHeterogeneousCatalystsfortheSolvent-FreeOxidationofBenzylAlcohol %A Shah R. ALI %A Prakash CHANDRA %A Mamta LATWAL %A Shalabh K. JAIN %A Vipin K. BANSAL %A Sudhanshu P. SINGH %J ´ß»¯Ñ§±¨ %P 1844-1849 %D 2011 %R 10.1016/S1872-2067(10)60292-6 %X £¿Nickelhexacyanoferratenanoparticlesweresynthesizedandcharacterizedusingelementalanalysis,thermalanalysis,infraredspectroscopy,andX-raydiffraction.AFE-SEMimageofthenickelhexacyanoferrateshowedthatitconsistsofnearlysphericalparticleswithsizesrangingfrom30to70nm.Thesynthesizedmaterialwasfoundtobeaheterogeneouscatalystusefulforthesolvent-freeoxidationofbenzylalcoholwithH2O2asanoxidant.A36%conversionofbenzylalcoholtobenzaldehydewasachievedunderoptimizedreactionconditionsusingspecificparameterssuchastheamountofcatalyst,thetemperature,thebenzylalcoholtoH2O2molarratio,andthereactiontime. %K hexacyanoferratenanoparticle %K heterogeneouscatalyst %K benzylalcohol %K benzaldehyde %U http://www.chxb.cn/CN/abstract/abstract20569.shtml