Efficient photocatalytic selective nitro-reduction and C-H bond oxidation over ultrathin sheet mediated CdS flowers

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Jun 28;51(51):10322-5. doi: 10.1039/c5cc01685a.

Abstract

We report here a visible light driven selective nitro-reduction and oxidation of saturated sp(3) C-H bonds using ultrathin (0.8 nm) sheet mediated uniform CdS flowers as catalyst under a household 40 W CFL lamp and molecular oxygen as oxidant. The CdS flowers were synthesized using a simple surfactant assisted hydrothermal method.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cadmium Compounds / chemistry*
  • Carbon / chemistry
  • Catalysis
  • Coordination Complexes / chemistry
  • Hydrazines / chemistry
  • Hydrogen / chemistry
  • Nanoparticles / chemistry*
  • Nitrophenols / chemistry*
  • Oxidation-Reduction
  • Oxygen / chemistry
  • Photochemical Processes*
  • Sulfides / chemistry*

Substances

  • Cadmium Compounds
  • Coordination Complexes
  • Hydrazines
  • Nitrophenols
  • Sulfides
  • cadmium sulfide
  • hydrazine
  • Carbon
  • Hydrogen
  • Oxygen
  • 4-nitrophenol