Catalytic hydrogenation catalyst, preparation thereof and application thereof in selective hydrogenation reaction of tetrahydrofarnesyl acetone
(I) technical field
The invention relates to a fixed bed catalytic hydrogenation catalyst, and preparation and application thereof, in particular to application of the catalyst in a fixed bed catalytic selective hydrogenation reaction of tetrahydrofarnesyl acetone.
(II) technical background
6,10, 14-trimethyl-2-pentadecanone (hexahydrofarnesyl acetone, PA) is an important chemical intermediate for preparing vitamin E, and the VE demand is greatly increased along with the enhancement of the demand of people on health. Currently, PA is prepared industrially mainly from 6, 7-dihydrolinalool or 1, 2-dehydrolinalool. However, in these existing PA synthesis routes, the PA is finally obtained by catalytic hydrogenation of 6,10, 14-trimethyl-13-ene-2-pentadecanone (tetrahydrofarnesylacetone, FA-4H), so that the production of tetrahydrofarnesylacetone is increased year by year. Therefore, the development of a green catalytic hydrogenation process aiming at the industrial production requirement is of great significance.
Tetrahydrofarnesylacetone is a class of unsaturated ketone compounds containing a C ═ C bond in which the carbon-carbon double bond has a lower activation energy than the carbonyl group, and therefore the former is more susceptible to hydrogenation than the latter. However, when C ═ C or C ═ O is present in the compound at the same time, the hydrogenation is different from the individual C ═ C or C ═ O hydrogenation reaction, so it is still very difficult to achieve PA selectivity of 100% (carbonyl-free hydrogenation), and it is important to control the selectivity of the reaction.
The properties of the catalyst metal and the choice of the support are of particular importance for this reaction. Firstly, the nature of the metal has great influence on the catalytic hydrogenation performance, the larger the d orbital bandwidth of the metal selected by the catalyst is, the stronger the repulsion action with four electrons of C ═ C bonds is, and the adsorption of the C ═ O bonds to form unsaturated alcohols is easy to occur. Furthermore, the carbon chain of the tetrahydrofarnesyl acetone molecule is longer, the long carbon chain cannot be adsorbed on a flat metal surface in parallel due to steric hindrance, a certain distance is kept, and in addition, the number of branched chains connected with vinyl is more than that of branched chains connected with carbonyl, so that the steric hindrance effect is obvious, the absorption of C-C bonds is not facilitated, and the carbonyl is more prone to adsorption hydrogenation reaction. When the metal particles are small, the influence of the stereoscopic effect is not obvious, the C-C, C-O bond can contact the metal surface, and the C-C bond is mainly hydrogenated; when the metal particles are large, C ═ O is more easily contacted with the metal surface than C ═ C due to the existence of steric hindrance, and the adsorption of C ═ O bonds is facilitated.
The larger the carrier particle size, the longer the pore channel is, the longer the time is spent for the PA generated by the reaction on the inner hole to diffuse out of the catalyst particles through the pore channel, and the product is not easy to desorb from the carrier surface to cause carbonyl hydrogenation. In addition, the catalyst with small particle size is easier to be uniformly dispersed in the reaction liquid, and the effective contact of reactants and the catalyst is increased, so that the reaction rate is accelerated.
The specific surface area of the carrier is an important parameter for measuring the activity of the reaction catalyst, and the carrier with high specific surface area is also favorable for dispersing active components on the surface of the carrier. However, the activity of the catalyst is also affected by the pore size. The carrier has smaller pore diameter, and the small pore diameter ensures that large reactant molecules are difficult to enter pores, namely, the steric hindrance effect (or the shape-selective and domain-limited effect of pore channels) can only generate catalytic reaction on the surface of the catalyst, and the inside is not fully utilized, namely, the effective active sites are reduced, thus leading to low activity.
Therefore, the fixed bed catalytic hydrogenation catalyst is prepared by a photo-deposition method to prepare the Pd/C catalyst with small and controllable metal particle size in one step, the preparation method is simple and convenient to operate, and the catalyst is easy to recover; the catalyst is applied to the reaction of preparing hexahydrofarnesyl acetone by catalytic hydrogenation under the fixed bed condition, does not need to add an auxiliary agent, has good catalytic performance, high selectivity and long service life, and hydrogen in the catalytic reaction can be recycled.
Disclosure of the invention
The invention aims to provide a catalytic hydrogenation catalyst, which is particularly suitable for the reaction of synthesizing hexahydrofarnesyl acetone by selective hydrogenation of tetrahydrofarnesyl acetone.
The invention also aims to provide a method for preparing the catalytic hydrogenation catalyst, which is simple to operate, can realize the one-step in-situ generation and growth of metal points on the surface of a carbon sphere, and has the advantages of precise and controllable particle size distribution range of the metal points.
The invention further aims to provide the application of the catalytic hydrogenation catalyst in the catalytic hydrogenation reaction of the tetrahydrofarnesyl acetone, and the catalyst has the characteristics of no need of additives, high conversion rate, good selectivity, high hydrogenation reaction rate, good stability, long service life of the catalyst and recycling of hydrogen.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
in one aspect, the invention provides a catalytic hydrogenation catalyst, which consists of an activated carbon carrier coated with a modified coating and metal quantum dots loaded on the carrier; the metal is palladium, and the particle size range of the metal quantum dots is 3-6 nm; the activated carbon is irregular or formed granular activated carbon, and the size of the activated carbon is not more than 1 cm; the pore structure of the active carbon coated with the modified coating is mainly mesopores, the proportion of micropores is reduced to below 10%, and the components of the modified coating are titanium dioxide, silicon dioxide and titanium silicate; in the catalyst, the mass fraction of the metal quantum dots is 1-2%, the total mass of the modified coating composition substances is not more than 15% of the mass of the active carbon, wherein the mass of the titanium silicate is not more than 1.5% of the mass of the active carbon, and the mass ratio of the silicon dioxide to the titanium dioxide is not less than 20.
Furthermore, in the catalyst, the mass fraction of the metal quantum dots is 1.5-2%.
Further, the total mass of the modified coating composition substances is 1-15% of the mass of the activated carbon.
Further, the quality of the titanium silicate is not higher than 0.5 percent of the quality of the active carbon.
Further, the mass ratio of the silicon dioxide to the titanium dioxide is 30-50.
In another aspect, the present invention provides a preparation method of the catalytic hydrogenation catalyst, including:
1) putting activated carbon, methyl orthosilicate and tetrabutyl titanate in a distillation device, adding a tetramethylammonium hydroxide aqueous solution, distilling alcohol generated by hydrolysis at 90-100 ℃, then putting the obtained activated carbon particles in a closed container, heating at 150-200 ℃ for 5-24 h, cooling to room temperature, and taking out the activated carbon to obtain the activated carbon coated with the modified coating; the mass ratio of the activated carbon to the total mass of the methyl orthosilicate and the tetrabutyl titanate is 20: 0.2-3.0, and the mass ratio of the methyl orthosilicate to the tetrabutyl titanate is 20-30: 1, the mass of the tetramethylammonium hydroxide is not more than 10 percent of the total mass of the methyl orthosilicate and the tetrabutyl titanate;
2) preparing the activated carbon coated with the modified coating obtained in the step 1), deionized water and methanol into mixed slurry, stirring for 10-20 min, adding a palladium salt aqueous solution into the prepared mixed slurry, placing the mixed slurry under an ultraviolet lamp, performing illumination stirring for 10-25 min under the conditions that the power is 250-300 w and the wavelength is 350-400 nm, then taking out the mixed slurry, and washing and drying to obtain the catalytic hydrogenation catalyst.
In step 1) of the present invention, the mass of the tetramethylammonium hydroxide is preferably 1 to 10% of the total mass of the methyl orthosilicate and the tetrabutyl titanate. The mass concentration of the tetramethylammonium hydroxide aqueous solution is preferably 15-25%.
The size of the metal point is controlled by controlling the ultraviolet irradiation condition in the step 2). The feeding mass ratio of the activated carbon coated with the modified coating to the deionized water is 1g: 10-25 ml, preferably 1g: 15 ml; the volume ratio of the methanol to the deionized water is 1: 2-8, and preferably 1: 5. The palladium salt may be a combination of one or more of the following: palladium nitrate, chloropalladic acid, ethylenediamine palladium chloride, ammonium tetrachloropalladate, sodium chloropalladate, tetraamminepalladium nitrate and tetraamminepalladium bicarbonate. The mass concentration of palladium in the palladium salt aqueous solution is preferably 0.001-0.05 g/mL, and the feeding ratio of the activated carbon coated with the modified coating to the palladium salt aqueous solution is preferably 1g: 4-20 mL. The drying conditions are preferably: and drying the water-washed sample at 40-80 ℃ for 12-48 hours.
In a third aspect, the invention provides an application of the catalytic hydrogenation catalyst in a reaction for synthesizing hexahydrofarnesyl acetone shown in a formula II by selective catalytic hydrogenation of tetrahydrofarnesyl acetone shown in a formula I;
the application method of the catalyst comprises the following steps:
loading a catalytic hydrogenation catalyst into the tubular reactor, the catalyst having a size less than 1/10 of the inside diameter of the tubular reactor; replacing air in the reaction tube with nitrogen, and replacing the nitrogen with hydrogen to ensure that the pressure of the hydrogen in the reaction tube is 0.5-1.5 MPa and the temperature is 25-150 ℃; dissolving tetrahydrofarnesyl acetone shown as formula I in an alcohol solvent (preferably methanol or ethanol) to obtain a reaction solution, pumping the reaction solution into a mixing tube in front of a reaction tube by a high-pressure liquid pump, mixing the reaction solution with hydrogen gas, then putting the mixture into the reaction tube filled with a catalyst, turning on a light source to irradiate for starting reaction, wherein the irradiation wavelength range of the light source is 280-350 nm, the power is 200-250W, and the radiation intensity is 3660-3980 muW/cm2After the reaction is finished, the unreacted hydrogen is recycled through a gas-liquid separation device, and the liquid product is separated and then treated to obtain hexahydrofarnesyl acetone shown in a formula II;
further, in the application, the ratio of the tetrahydrofarnesylacetone shown in the formula I to the alcohol solvent is not higher than 7g/10ml, the volume ratio of the reaction liquid to hydrogen (in a standard state) during gas-liquid mixing is not higher than 2:1, and the liquid space velocity is20~100min-1。
Further, the method for separating and post-treating the hydrogenation liquid comprises the following steps: the hydrogenation liquid is rectified under reduced pressure to obtain the product.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
1) the active carbon is used as a carrier of the catalyst, so that a larger specific surface area is provided, and meanwhile, the metal salt solution and the active carbon enable metal to be better dispersed on the carrier under the irradiation of ultraviolet light, so that the metal is not easy to agglomerate, and the metal utilization rate is improved; the electronic characteristics of metal points can be modified and the electronic characteristics of a carrier adsorbing active centers can be improved by coating a small amount of silicon dioxide, titanium silicate and titanium dioxide on the surface of the active carbon, and the existence of the modified coating enables the aperture to be in a mesopore range, so that the steric hindrance effect is effectively avoided, the surface and the interior of the catalyst can simultaneously generate catalytic reaction, and the activity is improved.
2) The method adopts the photo-deposition method to prepare the metal particle size controllable Pd/C catalyst in one step, and the preparation method is simple and convenient to operate;
3) the invention adopts metal Pd as an active component, the d-orbital bandwidth of the Pd is smaller, the rejection effect of the Pd and four electrons of a C-C bond is weak, the addition of carbon-carbon double bonds is facilitated, the influence of the stereoscopic effect of the Pd with small particle size is not obvious, the C-C, C-O bond can be in parallel contact with the metal surface, and the bond energy of the carbon-carbon double bond is lower than that of a carbonyl bond, so that the C-C bond is mainly hydrogenated, and the reaction selectivity of synthesizing hexahydrofarnesyl acetone by selective catalytic hydrogenation of the tetrahydrofarnesyl acetone is further improved. The catalyst is particularly suitable for the reaction of preparing hexahydrofarnesyl acetone by catalytic hydrogenation under the fixed bed condition.
(IV) description of the drawings
FIG. 1 is a transmission electron micrograph of the first example, wherein the black particles are Pd metal dots.
(V) detailed description of the preferred embodiments
The technical solution of the present invention is further illustrated by the following specific examples, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto:
example 1
1.5g of water-soluble methyl orthosilicate and 0.05g of n-butyl titanate are weighed and added into a distillation flask, 20g of activated carbon is added after full stirring, then 20% of tetramethylammonium hydroxide aqueous solution (containing 0.075g of tetramethylammonium hydroxide) with the mass concentration of 20% is dripped, distillation is carried out at 95 ℃ to separate hydrolysis products, and then the solid matters in the flask are heated at 180 ℃ for 12 hours.
Taking 1g of the activated carbon prepared by the method (the detected mesopore proportion is 70 percent, the detected micropore proportion is 30 percent, and the size is not more than 1cm), 15mL of deionized water and 3mL of methanol to prepare mixed slurry, stirring for 15min, taking 10mL of chloropalladate solution with the palladium concentration of 0.002g/mL, dripping the chloropalladate solution into the mixed solution, placing the mixed solution under an ultraviolet lamp for illumination stirring at the power of 275w and 386nm for 20min, then taking out the mixed slurry, washing the mixed slurry to be neutral by water, and placing the mixed slurry into an oven to dry for 24 hours at the temperature of 60 ℃. Detected SiO27.5% of TiO20.15 percent of the titanium silicate, 0.1 percent of the titanium silicate, 97.5 percent of the mesopore, 2.5 percent of the micropore, 2 percent of the metal load and 4-5 nm of the metal particle size.
Examples two to thirteen are catalysts prepared according to the procedure of example one, with specific parameters as shown in table 1.
Comparative example 1
Weighing 1g of untreated activated carbon (the detected mesopore proportion is 70 percent, the detected micropore proportion is 30 percent, and the size is not more than 1cm), 15mL of deionized water and 3mL of methanol to prepare mixed slurry, stirring for 15min, dripping 10mL of palladium chloride solution with the palladium concentration of 0.002g/mL into the mixed solution, placing the mixed solution under an ultraviolet lamp for illumination and stirring for 20min under the power of 275w and 386nm, then taking out the mixed slurry, washing the mixed slurry to be neutral, and then placing the mixed slurry into an oven to dry for 24 hours at the temperature of 60 ℃. According to detection, the mesopore proportion is 70%, the micropore proportion is 30%, the metal loading is 2%, and the metal particle size is 4-5 nm.
Comparative example 2
1.5g of water-soluble methyl orthosilicate and 0.05g of n-butyl titanate are weighed and added into a distillation flask, 20g of activated carbon is added after full stirring, solid substances in the flask are taken out after 3 hours of impregnation, and the mixture is heated at 180 ℃ for 12 hours. Detected SiO20.5% of TiO20.01 percent, 0.0 percent of titanium silicate, 70.5 percent of mesopore and 29.5 percent of micropore.
Taking 1g of the activated carbon prepared by the method (the detected mesopore proportion is 70 percent, the detected micropore proportion is 30 percent, and the size is not more than 1cm), 15mL of deionized water and 3mL of methanol to prepare mixed slurry, stirring for 15min, taking 10mL of chloropalladate solution with the palladium concentration of 0.002g/mL, dripping the chloropalladate solution into the mixed solution, placing the mixed solution under an ultraviolet lamp for illumination stirring at the power of 275w and 386nm for 20min, then taking out the mixed slurry, washing the mixed slurry to be neutral by water, and placing the mixed slurry into an oven to dry for 24 hours at the temperature of 60 ℃. The metal loading is 2%, and the metal particle size is 4-5 nm.
Comparative example 3
1.5g of water-soluble methyl orthosilicate and 0.05g of n-butyl titanate were weighed out and charged into a distillation flask, then a 20% by mass aqueous tetramethylammonium hydroxide solution (containing 0.075g of tetramethylammonium hydroxide) was added dropwise thereto, and distillation was carried out at 95 ℃ to separate a hydrolyzate, and then the solid matter in the flask was heated at 180 ℃ for 12 hours.
Taking 1g of the silicon dioxide and titanium dioxide solid prepared by the method, 15mL of deionized water and 3mL of methanol to prepare mixed slurry, stirring for 15min, taking 10mL of chloropalladate solution with palladium concentration of 0.002g/mL, dripping the chloropalladate solution into the mixed solution, placing the mixed solution under an ultraviolet lamp for illumination and stirring for 20min under the power of 275w and 386nm, taking out the mixed slurry, washing the mixed slurry to be neutral by water, and placing the mixed slurry into an oven to dry for 24 hours at the temperature of 60 ℃. The metal loading is 2%, and the metal particle size is 4-5 nm.
Example 14
The catalyst of example 1 was charged into a tubular reactor having an inner diameter of 20cm, and air was replaced with nitrogen, and then nitrogen was replaced with hydrogen. Dissolving tetrahydrofarnesyl acetone into a methanol solvent according to the total volume of the tetrahydrofarnesyl acetone and the methanol and the volume ratio of hydrogen of 1:1 and the ratio of the tetrahydrofarnesyl acetone to the methanol of 2g:5ml, pumping the mixture into a mixing tube in front of a reaction tube by a high-pressure liquid pump, mixing the mixture with hydrogen in a gas-liquid manner, then feeding the mixture into a tubular reactor filled with a catalyst, setting the hydrogen pressure of 1MPa, the temperature of 50 ℃ and the liquid airspeed of 50min-1Turning on the illumination device, setting the illumination power at 325nm, the power at 225W, and the radiation intensity at 3820 μ W/cm2Starting reaction, passing through a gas-liquid separation device after the one-way reaction is finished, recycling unreacted hydrogen, and separating and post-treating a liquid product to obtain a product hexahydroFarnesyl acetone. The analysis result is as follows: the reaction conversion rate is 100 percent, and the selectivity is 98.99 percent.
Examples 15 to 27
Examples 15 to 27 were carried out according to the fixed bed catalytic evaluation procedure of example 14, using the fixed bed catalytic hydrogenation catalysts prepared in examples 1 to 13 and comparative examples 1 to 2, and the specific parameters are shown in table 2.
Comparative examples 4 to 15
Comparative examples 4 to 15 are the results of the application of the reaction conditions of examples 14 to 25 to the hydrogenation reaction catalyzed by tetrahydrofarnesylacetone under the non-light condition, and are shown in Table 3 below.
Example 28
In example 28, the catalyst prepared in example 1 was continuously reacted under the evaluation conditions of example 14, and the life of the catalyst was examined, as shown in table 4 below.
TABLE 3 comparative examples four to fifteen Single pass conversion and Selectivity without light
Examples
|
Conversion rate%
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Selectivity%
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Comparative example 4
|
96.7
|
92.29
|
Comparative example 5
|
97.4
|
92.36
|
Comparative example 6
|
96.6
|
89.98
|
Comparative example 7
|
97.2
|
92.25
|
Comparative example 8
|
96.4
|
89.34
|
Comparative example 9
|
95.1
|
91.58
|
Comparative example 10
|
96.2
|
91.85
|
Comparative example 11
|
97.2
|
92.47
|
Comparative example 12
|
96.8
|
91.15
|
Comparative example 13
|
96.5
|
92.47
|
Comparative example 14
|
97.4
|
93.13
|
Comparative example 15
|
96.4
|
90.97 |
Table 4 example 28 conversion and selectivity of catalyst for continuous reaction
Time/h
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Conversion rate/%
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Selectivity/%)
|
10
|
100
|
99.37
|
50
|
100
|
99.36
|
100
|
100
|
99.48
|
120
|
100
|
99.55
|
150
|
100
|
99.39
|
180
|
100
|
99.58
|
200
|
100
|
98.88
|
220
|
100
|
99.77
|
240
|
100
|
99.65
|
280
|
100
|
99.57
|
300
|
100
|
99.33
|
350
|
100
|
98.99 |