Organic inorganic hybrid cobalt phthalocyanine/polyaniline as efficient catalyst for aerobic oxidation of alcohols in liquid phase

Abstract

Organic inorganic hybrid catalyst synthesized by doping of cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPc) on polyaniline support (CoPc/PANI) exhibited higher activity for the oxidation of various alcohols to the corresponding carbonyl compounds in high to excellent yield using molecular oxygen as oxidant and isobutyraldehyde as a sacrificial agent. Notably, the synthesized catalyst was found to be truly heterogeneous in nature and could be easily recovered, recycled for several recycling runs without loss of catalytic activity.