Abstract
The effect of tellurium introduction on the activity and selectivity of home-made supported palladium catalysts in the oxidation of glucose to gluconic acid was studied. Bimetallic Pd–Te/SiO 2 and Pd–Te/Al 2O 3 catalysts containing 5 wt.% of Pd and 0.3–5 wt.% of Te are characterized by both high activity and high selectivity to gluconic acid. However, catalysts 5%Pd–8%Te/support show lower conversion but their selectivity to gluconic acid is still high. The activation of bimetallic Pd–Te/support catalysts at 300 °C in hydrogen atmosphere leads to the formation of PdTe and PdTe 2 compounds. The presence of intermetallic phase Pd x Te y on the surface of studied catalysts probably modifies their catalytic properties. The catalysts, for which the existence of PdTe was proved, show high activity and selectivity in the studied reaction. The existence of those compounds on the surface was confirmed by XRD, SIMS-ToF, XPS and TPR techniques. Moreover, another important feature of the bimetallic Pd–Te/support catalysts is their high stability in the process of glucose oxidation in the liquid phase.
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