A new catalytic route was established for oxidation of alcohols, imines formation, and knoevenagel condensation. Magnesium hydroxide and cerium oxide composite was synthesized using co-precipitation method and was employed in various organic transformations like oxidation, imines formation and knoevenagel condensation. Magnesium hydroxide and cerium oxide composite was characterized by fourier-transform Infrared (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM) techniques. The effect of temperature, amount of catalyst, different solvents, and time-course were performed to find out the optimization condition for these three organic transformations.
Results and Discussion
Characterization of catalystsNickel cerium hydroxide (NiCe-HD), cobalt cerium hydroxide (CoCe-HD), mixed magnesium hydroxide and ceria (MgCe-HDO) and zinc ferric hydroxide (ZnFe-HD) were prepared using the co-precipitation method and were characterized with IR, XRD [a] R.