Platinum Nanoparticles Supported on Nitrogen‐doped Carbon Nanofibers as Efficient Poisoning Catalysts for the Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes
Platinum Nanoparticles Supported on Nitrogen‐doped Carbon Nanofibers as Efficient Poisoning Catalysts for the Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes
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10.1002/cctc.201100135
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2011-10
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4.5
通讯作者:
Yukihiro Motoyama;Youngjin Lee;K. Tsuji;Seong-Ho Yoon;I. Mochida;H. Nagashima
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作者:
Yukihiro Motoyama;Youngjin Lee;K. Tsuji;Seong-Ho Yoon;I. Mochida;H. Nagashima
Carbon-supported metal nanoparticles are widely used as sensors, electrocatalysts for fuel cells and Li ion batteries, or heterogeneous catalysts for various organic transformations. Since the catalytic properties of these materials are highly dependent on the supports, numerous studies have been performed to modify the carbon supports to improve their catalyst performances. 2] One method to tailor the chemical and/or physical properties and stabilize metal nanoparticles–support interactions involves the chemical modification of the carbon surface by introduction of functional groups or the doping of heteroatoms. For example, the addition of sulfur, nitrogen, phosphorous, or halogen containing compounds as a catalyst poison to the original catalyst often retards the reaction rate, but sometimes also suppresses possible side reactions, thereby leading to highly selective organic transformations. 6] Another way to improve the catalyst performance is the use of carbon nanomaterials as a support, because their nanolevel controlled surface structures lead to the immobilization of highly dispersed metal nanoparticles with narrow size distributions and high conductivity. We previously reported the synthesis and application of metal nanoparticles supported on carbon nanofibers (CNFs) in hydrogenation catalysts. CNFs are classified into three types, in which the graphite layers are perpendicular (platelet: CNFP), parallel (tubular : CNF-T), or stacked obliquely (herringbone: CNF-H). Among these metal-supported CNFs (M/CNF; M = Ru, Rh, Pd, and Pt), Pt/CNF-P and Pt/CNF-H were proven to act as reusable catalysts for the nitro-selective reduction of halonitrobenzenes to the corresponding haloanilines with high turnover numbers in the presence of n-octylamine (OctNH2) as a catalyst poison. Because of these results, we were interested in nitrogen-doped CNF as a support for metal nanoparticles. The combination of carbon nanostructures and the doping of nitrogen atoms are expected to offer an efficient poisoning catalyst for chemoselective catalytic reactions. In this paper, we report that platinum nanoparticles can be immobilized on the surface of nitrogen-doped, herringbone-type carbon nanofibers (N-CNFH), and the formed Pt/N-CNF-H compounds are highly efficient reusable catalysts for the nitro-selective hydrogenation of functionalized nitroarenes. N-CNF-H was synthesized by using chemical vapor deposition over a MgO supported Ni–Fe catalyst using acetonitrile and hydrogen at 530 8C, as reported previously. Elemental analysis of N-CNF-H revealed the amount of nitrogen incorporated into N-CNF-H to be approximately 5 wt %. Immobilization of platinum particles (metal loadings of ca. 1 and 3 wt %) on NCNF-H was performed by applying the same method as for Pt/ CNF, that is, by thermally decomposing [Pt(dba)2] (dba = dibenzylideneacetone) in toluene in the presence of N-CNF-H under an argon atmosphere (Scheme 1).