Plasmonic coupling-enhanced in situ photothermal nanoreactor with shape selective catalysis for C-C coupling reaction

• Published in: Nano research Vol. 13; no. 10; pp. 2812 - 2818
• Main Authors: Li, Zhenxing, Gong, Yixuan, Zhang, Xin, Wen, Yangyang, Yao, Jiasai, Hu, Mingliang, He, Miao, Liu, Jiahao, Li, Rui, Wang, Fuqiang, Zhang, Chuanxin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Beijing Tsinghua University Press 01.10.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Absorption; Agrochemicals; Atomic/Molecular Structure and Spectra; Biomedicine; Biotechnology; Boric acid; Carbon; Carbon-carbon composites; Catalysis; Catalysts; Chemical reactions; Chemical synthesis; Chemistry and Materials Science; Condensed Matter Physics; Copper; Coupling; Coupling (molecular); Encapsulation; Glycerol; Irradiation; Laboratories; Light; Light irradiation; Materials Science; Morphology; Nanoparticles; Nanotechnology; Natural products; Nickel; Photocatalysis; Plasmonics; Pore size; Radiation; Research Article; Selectivity; C-C coupling reaction; shape selective catalysis; photocatalysis; nanoreactor; metal-organic framework
• ISSN: 1998-0124; 1998-0000
• DOI: 10.1007/s12274-020-2933-3

Carbon-carbon (C-C) coupling reactions represent one of the most powerful tools for the synthesis of complex natural products, bioactive molecules developed as drugs and agrochemicals. In this work, a multifunctional nanoreactor for C-C coupling reaction was successfully fabricated via encapsulating the core-shell Cu@Ni nanocubes into ZIF-8 (Cu@Ni@ZIF-8). In this nanoreactor, Ni shell of the core-shell Cu@Ni nanocubes was the catalytical active center, and Cu core was in situ heating source for the catalyst by absorbing the visible light. Moreover, benefiting from the plasmonic resonance effect between Cu@Ni nanocubes encapsulated in ZIF-8, the absorption range of nanoreactor was widened and the utilization rate of visible light was enhanced. Most importantly, the microporous structure of ZIF-8 provided shape-selective of reactant. This composite was used for the highly shape-selective and stable photocatalysed C-C coupling reaction of boric acid under visible light irradiation. After five cycles, the nanoreactor still remained high catalytical activity. This Cu@Ni@ZIF-8 nanoreactor opens a way for photocatalytic C-C coupling reactions with shape-selectivity.