Artigo Revisado por pares

Heterogeneous Photocatalytic Oxidation of Diphenylmethane on TiO 2 Powder

1986; Wiley; Volume: 33; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/jccs.198600018

ISSN

2192-6549

Autores

J.‐J. LIANG, Tai‐Jei Liu,

Tópico(s)

Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion

Resumo

Abstract Benzophenone is produced in the photocatalytic oxidation of diphenylmethane in an oxygen saturated TiO 2 suspension. The yield is found to increase with increasing solvent polarity. An electron transfer mechanism is proposed in which a pair of electron‐positive holes generated initially by illumination may transfer an electron to O 2 and abstract an electron from diphenylmethane to form O 2 − and ϕ 2 CH 2 + ; subsequently, ϕ 2 CH 2 + will react with O 2 − to give the product.

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