Affiliations: Inorganic Chemistry-Nanochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Shahr-e-Rey Branch, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Note: [] Corresponding author: M. Yousefi, Inorganic Chemistry-Nanochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Shahr-e-Rey Branch, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Islamic Azad University, P.O. Box.:18155-144, Tehran, Iran. Tel.: +98 2155229321; E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: The aim of this work is the synthesis of Ni-doped CoFe2O4 ferrite as a robust, safe and magnetically recoverable catalyst by sol-gel auto-combustion method to catalyze oxidation of benzyl alcohol. The catalyst was characterized by XRD, SEM, EDXA, FT-IR and VSM. An environmentally benign oxidation of benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde with hydrogen peroxide as oxidant and Ni-doped CoFe2O4 as catalysts was treated under solvent-free condition in microwave condition. Ni-doped CoFe2O4 showed convenient catalytic activity. The resulting product was characterized by FT-IR and 1H-NMR. The catalyst can be recovered and reused.
