Highly efficient recycling of a "sandwich" type polyoxometalate oxidation catalyst using solvent resistant nanofiltration

Peter T Witte; Sankhanilay Roy Chowdhury; Johan E ten Elshof; Dorit Sloboda-Rozner; Ronny Neumann; Paul L Alsters

doi:10.1039/b416096g

Highly efficient recycling of a "sandwich" type polyoxometalate oxidation catalyst using solvent resistant nanofiltration

Chem Commun (Camb). 2005 Mar 7:(9):1206-8. doi: 10.1039/b416096g. Epub 2005 Jan 18.

Authors

Peter T Witte¹, Sankhanilay Roy Chowdhury, Johan E ten Elshof, Dorit Sloboda-Rozner, Ronny Neumann, Paul L Alsters

Affiliation

¹ Inorganic Materials Science, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology & Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, Netherlands.

PMID: 15726193
DOI: 10.1039/b416096g

Abstract

A "sandwich" type polyoxometalate catalyst ([MeN(n-C8H17)3]12[WZn3(ZnW9O34)2]) was very efficiently recycled by nanofiltration with almost quantitative retention, using an alpha-alumina supported mesoporous gamma-alumina membrane.