Issue 22, 2020

Confined pyrolysis of a dye pollutant for two-dimensional F,N,S tri-doped nanocarbon as a high performance oxidative coupling reaction catalyst

Abstract

Nanocarbon materials as metal-free catalysts for the oxidative coupling of primary amines to imines suffer from high catalyst loading, low reaction rate and high oxygen demand. Doping heteroatoms in nanocarbons is realized as an effective strategy to improve the catalytic activity, however, the doping of fluorine has been rarely studied. Here we synthesized a F,N,S tri-doped hierarchical nanocarbon (FNSHC) by pyrolyzing a fluorine-containing azo-sulphonate dye (acid red-337, a pollutant in wastewater) confined in a layered double hydroxide (LDH). The LDH-confined synthetic method is beneficial to the formation of a two-dimensional porous structure with a large specific surface area (∼1432 m2 g−1) and high fluorine content, enabling remarkable catalytic performance (98% yield in 4 h at 2 wt% catalyst loading under open-air conditions) and high recyclability, outcompeting current metal-free carbocatalysts. The conversion of environmental pollutants into heteroatom-doped carbon materials provides a new green strategy for the design and synthesis of functional carbon catalysts.

Graphical abstract: Confined pyrolysis of a dye pollutant for two-dimensional F,N,S tri-doped nanocarbon as a high performance oxidative coupling reaction catalyst

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
16 Jun 2020
Accepted
25 Sep 2020
First published
25 Sep 2020

Green Chem., 2020,22, 7839-7847

Confined pyrolysis of a dye pollutant for two-dimensional F,N,S tri-doped nanocarbon as a high performance oxidative coupling reaction catalyst

S. Liu, S. Chen, A. Yu, Y. Hu, B. Yu, H. Wang, P. Peng and F. Li, Green Chem., 2020, 22, 7839 DOI: 10.1039/D0GC02040K

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