Abstract

N-Methyl amines play a major role in the production of medicines, pesticides, surfactants and dyes. N-Methylation of primary or second amines with methanol is considered to be a green path for the synthesis of N-methyl amines and the catalyst is key. In this article, the combined Al2O3–mordenite catalyst (mass fraction of alumina is 40%) with good activity, selectivity, lifetime and stability was prepared for N-methylation of various amines with methanol in a hydrogen free system in a fixed bed reactor, and characterized by XRD, N2 adsorption and NH3-TPD. Furthermore, the methanol adsorption was investigated by in situ FTIR, and the result indicated that methoxyl species may be the active species for the N-methylation of amines.

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