Single walled carbon nanotubes with encapsulated Pt(II) photocatalyst for the oxidation of sulfides in water

A simple one-step synthesis of a heterogeneous photocatalyst based on the encapsulation of the quinolinate-platinum complex 1 in the inner cavity of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes (Pt1@oSWNT) is presented. This strategy generates a robust and stable catalyst for photooxidations performed in water me...

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Authors: González Muñoz, Daniel, Alemán Lara, José Julián, Blanco Fernández, Matías, Cabrera Herranz, Silvia
Format: article
Publication Date:2022
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repository:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/703590
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/703590
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2022.06.027
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Carbon nanotubes
Encapsulation
Photocatalysis
Pt(II) complexes
Water-reactions
Química
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Summary:A simple one-step synthesis of a heterogeneous photocatalyst based on the encapsulation of the quinolinate-platinum complex 1 in the inner cavity of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes (Pt1@oSWNT) is presented. This strategy generates a robust and stable catalyst for photooxidations performed in water media. Pt1@oSWNT is characterized spectroscopically and microscopically to have encapsulated a 2.5 % wt. of the unaltered complex. This material, which only contained 0.04 mol% of 1, is able to chemoselectively yield a wide variety of sulfoxides in water in the presence of air under 385 nm irradiation. The catalyst also presents affinity for polyaromatic substrates, increasing the reaction rate as a function of the number of condensed rings, achieving turnover frequencies as high as 8187 h−1. Moreover, the heterogeneous catalyst could be recycled for more than six consecutive reaction runs without losing its catalytic activity or detecting catalyst leaching