Scaled‐up, selective and green synthesis of sulfoxides under mild conditions using (CeIII‐MoVI)Ox/aniline hybrid rods as an efficient catalyst

Abstract

A novel hybrid material, (CeIII‐MoVI)Ox/aniline, with rod‐like morphology is synthesized through a wet chemical method using Mo3O10(C6H5NH3)2.2H2O nanowires as precursor. The synthesized materials are characterized by XRD, XPS, SEM, TEM, FTIR, Raman, UV–Vis, TGA, and elemental analysis. Also, their catalytic activities as a hybrid catalyst are tested in the selective oxidation of sulfides using hydrogen peroxide as a green oxidant. The proposed novel hybrid catalyst shows an excellent performance under green conditions at mild temperature. Furthermore, the scalability of the oxidation reaction is shown by making multi‐gram quantities at optimized conditions.