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in a mixed solvent composed of hexane (70 mL), distilled water
(30 mL), and ethanol (40 mL). Next, the formed Feoleate
complex (6 mmol) was mixed with oleic acid (3 mmol) and
tri-n-octylamine (82 mmol) at room temperature. Finally, the
mixture was decomposed by heating at 643 K, and mono-
FeNPs stabilized by oleic acid were formed. After the
procedure, the hydrophobic mono-FeNPs capped with oleic
acid were dispersed in tetramethylammonium hydroxide solu-
tion to make the nanoparticles hydrophilic.
2
.0
HT
Preparation of Magnetic MgAl Hydrotalcite. Magnetic
MgAl hydrotalcite with Fe O was prepared by coprecipita-
FeHT200
3
4
tion method. Mg(NO ) ¢6H O (12.5 mmol), Al(NO ) ¢9H O
3
2
2
3 2
2
(
1
2.5 mmol), and synthesized mono-FeNPs were dispersed in
00 mL of water. Water solution containing both NaOH and
FeHT100
FeHT50
FeHT25
Na2CO3 (NaOH/Na2CO3 = 2) was slowly added dropwise into
the above solution until pH ca. 10 under vigorous stirring. The
resulting solution was aged at 333 K for 2 h, then filtered,
washed with water, and dried at 373 K overnight. Synthesized
magnetic MgAl hydrotalcite with Fe O4 is described as
3
FeHTX, where X denotes the (Mg + Al)/Fe molar ratio of
each sample used. As a comparison, pure hydrotalcite (HT) was
prepared using a similar method.
FeNPs × 5
Preparation of Coprecipitated Fe3O4. Both FeCl2¢4H2O
(
3.7 mmol) and FeCl ¢6H O (7.4 mmol) were dissolved in
3 2
1
80 mL water, and 4 M NH4 water solution was added
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
dropwise into the above solution until pH ca. 10. After the
resulting precipitate was aged for 2 h at 333 K, it was filtered,
washed, and dried at room temperature.
Preparation of HT Containing Mono-FeNPs by Adsorp-
tion Method. The prepared HT and the synthesized mono-
FeNPs were stirred together in 50 mL H2O for 8 h at room
temperature. Then, the mixture was filtered, washed, and dried
at room temperature.
2
θ / degree
Figure 1. XRD patterns for HT, FeHTXs, and mono-
FeNPs. ( ) Hydrotalcite phase, ( ) magnetite phase.
HT, FeHTXs, and mono-FeNPs are shown in Figure 1. Mono-
FeNPs shows magnetite (Fe O ) phase, and the crystal size was
3
4
D311 = 7.3 nm calculated by Scherrer’s equation. Prepared HT
exhibited clear peaks of hydrotalcite-like LDHs at 2ª angles of
11.2, 22.6, 34.5, 38.0, 45.7, 60.3, and 61.5° corresponding to
(003), (006), (012), (015), (018), (110), and (113) reflections,
respectively, and basal spacing d003 is 0.79 nm. All diffraction
patterns and basal spacing of FeHTXs were similar to those of
HT. For FeHTXs, small peaks around at 2ª angles of 35.5,
42.9, and 62.7 attributed to a magnetite phase were observed,
depending on the amount of mono-FeNPs. These results
indicated that HT was formed even in the presence of mono-
FeNPs, and the mono-FeNPs had little effect on the structure
of HT.
Characterizations.
Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD)
patterns were obtained with a Rigaku RINT2000 X-ray
diffractometer using Cu K¡ radiation ( = 0.154 nm) and a
1
power of 40 kV and 20 mA. The morphologies of samples
were observed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM,
HITACHI H-7100). Magnetic properties were measured by
superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID, Quan-
tum Design MPMS-XL) ranging from ¹5.0 to 5.0 T. The
concentrations of Fe for each FeHTX catalysts were determined
by an inductively coupled plasma (ICP, Shimadzu ICPS-7000).
Epoxidation of 2-Cyclohexen-1-one Using Hydrogen
Peroxide. The reaction was carried out in a Schlenk-flask
Structural Morphology.
Transmission electron micro-
in methanol solvent at 313 K for 4 h under a flow of N . After
scope (TEM) images of mono-FeNPs, FeHT25, FeHT100, and
HT are shown in Figure 2. Mono-FeNPs are highly mono-
disperse nanoparticles, with about 20.0 nm average diameter
(Figure 2a) and narrow size distributions (inset Figure 2).
These morphologies were similar to those reported in the
2
the reaction, the catalyst was washed with 30 mL acetone twice,
dried at 353 K overnight, and reused for further reaction. A
gas chromatograph (GC) with a capillary column (TC-FFAP,
0
.25 mm © 30 m), was used to analyze the products.
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A One-Pot Synthesis of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF)
literature. The TEM image of HT (Figure 2d) shows the
plate-like morphology which is characteristic of LDH mate-
from Glucose. The reaction was performed at 373 K for 3 h in
mL of N,N-dimethylformamide using 0.05 g of magnetic
5
052
3
rials.
Moreover, for both FeHT25 (Figure 2b) and
hydrotalcite and 0.1 g of Amberlyst-15. High-performance
liquid chromatography (HPLC) using a Bio-rad Aminex HPX-
FeHT100 (Figure 2c), the formation of nanocomposite where
mono-FeNPs were embedded in plate-like hydrotalcite was
observed, indicating that FeHTXs could be prepared without
changing the morphologies of hydrotalcite or mono-FeNPs.
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7H column was used to analyze the products.
Results and Discussion
Magnetic Properties.
In order to evaluate magnetic
Crystal Structure. X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns for
properties, magnetization curves were measured by a super-