RESEARCH ARTICLE

 

Solid silica-based sulphonic acid as an efficient green catalyst for the selective oxidation of sulphides to sulphoxides using NaCIO in aqueous media

 

 

Ali Amoozadeh; Firouzeh Nemati

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

 

 

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ABSTRACT

A range of sulphides can be selectively oxidized to the corresponding sulphoxides in good yields using NaClO/silica sulphonic acid as an efficient and recyclable solid acid catalyst, in both water and 50/50 water/EtOH as solvents. The new method compares favourably with previous methods in the literature.

Key words: Silica sulphonic acid, heterogeneous catalyst, oxidation, sulphides, sulphoxides

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Acknowledgement

We thank the Department of Chemistry of Semnan University for supporting this work.

 

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Received 21 October 2008
Revised 6 December 2008
Accepted 7 January 2009

 

 

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