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Converting Co2+-impregnated g-C3N4 into N-doped CNTs-confined Co nanoparticles for efficient hydrogenation rearrangement reactions of furanic aldehydes
Wanbing Gong1(
),
Huijun Zhao1,3(
)
),
Huijun Zhao1,3(
)
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g-C3N4, carbon nanotubes, Co nanoparticles, hydrogenation rearrangement, furanic aldehydes
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Wang D, Al-Mamun M, Gong W, et al.
Converting Co2+-impregnated g-C3N4 into N-doped CNTs-confined Co nanoparticles for efficient hydrogenation rearrangement reactions of furanic aldehydes.
Nano Research,
2021, 14(8): 2846-2852.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3298-y
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The cyclopentanone and derivatives are a class of crucial fine chemicals for various industries and currently produced by conventional petrochemical synthetic routes. Here, we demonstrated a new synthetic approach to directly fabricate N-doped carbon nanotube (N-CNTs) networks with confined Co nanoparticles from Co2+-impregnated bulk g-C3N4 as high performance hydrogenation rearrangement (HR) catalyst to efficiently convert a wide spectrum of biomass-derived furanic aldehydes to the corresponding cyclopentanones in water under a record-low H2 pressure of 0.5 MPa and mild temperature. We unveiled a Co-catalysed bulk g-C3N4 decomposition/carbonisation CNTs formation mechanism. A new HR pathway was also unveiled.
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Converting Co2+-impregnated g-C3N4 into N-doped CNTs-confined Co nanoparticles for efficient hydrogenation rearrangement reactions of furanic aldehydes
Wanbing Gong1(
), Huijun Zhao1,3(
)
), Huijun Zhao1,3(
)
Abstract
The cyclopentanone and derivatives are a class of crucial fine chemicals for various industries and currently produced by conventional petrochemical synthetic routes. Here, we demonstrated a new synthetic approach to directly fabricate N-doped carbon nanotube (N-CNTs) networks with confined Co nanoparticles from Co2+-impregnated bulk g-C3N4 as high performance hydrogenation rearrangement (HR) catalyst to efficiently convert a wide spectrum of biomass-derived furanic aldehydes to the corresponding cyclopentanones in water under a record-low H2 pressure of 0.5 MPa and mild temperature. We unveiled a Co-catalysed bulk g-C3N4 decomposition/carbonisation CNTs formation mechanism. A new HR pathway was also unveiled.
Keywords:
g-C3N4, carbon nanotubes, Co nanoparticles, hydrogenation rearrangement, furanic aldehydes
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Received: 25 November 2020
Revised: 13 December 2020
Accepted: 15 December 2020
Published:
05 January 2021
Issue date: August 2021
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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51871209 and 51902311), and the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (No. 2019M652223).
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