Alkylation of benzene with carbon monoxide over Zn/H-ZSM-5 zeolite studied using in situ solid-state NMR spectroscopy

Xiumei Wang; Jun Xu; Guodong Qi; Chao Wang; Qiang Wang; Feng Deng

doi:10.1039/c4cc03621b

Alkylation of benzene with carbon monoxide over Zn/H-ZSM-5 zeolite studied using in situ solid-state NMR spectroscopy

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Oct 7;50(77):11382-4. doi: 10.1039/c4cc03621b.

Authors

Xiumei Wang¹, Jun Xu, Guodong Qi, Chao Wang, Qiang Wang, Feng Deng

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Center for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, P. R. China. xujun@wipm.ac.cn dengf@wipm.ac.cn.

PMID: 25126651
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc03621b

Abstract

Using in situ solid-state NMR spectroscopy we show that CO can act as an alkylating reagent and react with benzene to produce toluene over a Zn/H-ZSM-5 zeolite. In the alkylation reaction, CO provides the methyl group of toluene via a methoxy intermediate.