An efficient and environmentally friendly procedure was described for easy product isolation for the oxidation of cyclohexane with tert-butyl-hydroperoxide catalyzed by titanium silicalite 1 （TS-1） in ambient-temperature ionic liquid [emim]BF4. Good yield and higher selectivity of products were found in the ionic liquid compared with in molecular solvent. The research results showed 13.2% conversion of cyclohexane, 97.6% cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone selectivity were obtained in ionic liquid under mild conditions of 90℃.
Heterogeneous oxidation of cyclohexane by tert-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) was carried out over ZSM-5 catalysts with different Si/Al ratios in ionic liquids and organic molecular solvents. Higher yield and selec-tivity of the desired products were found in ionic liquids than in molecular solvents. The conversion of cyclohexane exhibits a decrease from 15.8% to 10.8% with the increase of Si/Al ratio of the HZSM-5 catalyst, and all the cata-lysts exhibit good selectivity of monofunctional oxidation products at around 97%. The activity of catalyst is found strongly dependent on the alkyl chain length of ionic liquid.
New experimental data of densities and surface tensions are presented for the binary mixtures of the ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3- methyl imidazolium nitrate （[EMIM]NO3） with methanol and ethanol. Measurements were performed at 298.15 K and atmospheric pressure, covering the whole composition range. Excess molar volumes VE and the surface tension deviations 8y have been determined. For the excess molar volumes of binary mixture, there is a region of negative VE at low IL mole fraction, passing through a minimum and then VE increases and becomes positive, showing maximum at higher IL mole fraction. It is shown that the surface tension deviations ~y of [EMIM]NO3 ＋ methanol system are positive but those of [EMIM]NO3 ＋ ethanol system are negative over the entire mole fraction range.
