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- Title
Highly Efficient Self-Assembled Activated Carbon Cloth-Templated Photocatalyst for NADH Regeneration and Photocatalytic Reduction of 4-Nitro Benzyl Alcohol.
- Authors
Gupta, Vaibhav; Yadav, Rajesh K.; Umar, Ahmad; Ibrahim, Ahmed A.; Singh, Satyam; Shahin, Rehana; Shukla, Ravindra K.; Tiwary, Dhanesh; Dwivedi, Dilip Kumar; Singh, Alok Kumar; Singh, Atresh Kumar; Baskoutas, Sotirios
- Abstract
This manuscript emphasizes how structural assembling can facilitate the generation of solar chemicals and the synthesis of fine chemicals under solar light, which is a challenging task via a photocatalytic pathway. Solar energy utilization for pollution prevention through the reduction of organic chemicals is one of the most challenging tasks. In this field, a metal-based photocatalyst is an optional technique but has some drawbacks, such as low efficiency, a toxic nature, poor yield of photocatalytic products, and it is expensive. A metal-free activated carbon cloth (ACC)–templated photocatalyst is an alternative path to minimize these drawbacks. Herein, we design the synthesis and development of a metal-free self-assembled eriochrome cyanine R (EC-R) based ACC photocatalyst (EC-R@ACC), which has a higher molar extinction coefficient and an appropriate optical band gap in the visible region. The EC-R@ACC photocatalyst functions in a highly effective manner for the photocatalytic reduction of 4-nitro benzyl alcohol (4-NBA) into 4-amino benzyl alcohol (4-ABA) with a yield of 96% in 12 h. The synthesized EC-R@ACC photocatalyst also regenerates reduced forms of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) cofactor with a yield of 76.9% in 2 h. The calculated turnover number (TON) of the EC-R@ACC photocatalyst for the reduction of 4-nitrobenzyl alcohol is 1.769 × 1019 molecules. The present research sets a new benchmark example in the area of organic transformation and artificial photocatalysis.
- Subjects
BENZYL alcohol; ACTIVATED carbon; CARBON fibers; CHEMICAL synthesis; CHEMICAL reduction; PHOTOREDUCTION
- Publication
Catalysts (2073-4344), 2023, Vol 13, Issue 4, p666
- ISSN
2073-4344
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/catal13040666