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19 Oct 10:01

Aerobic oxidation of aldehydes to acids in water with cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbene copper under mild conditions

Chem. Commun., 2021, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D1CC04812K, Communication
Songbo Xu, Xiaomin Zhang, Wenjie Xiong, Ping Li, Wentao Ma, Xingbang Hu, Youting Wu
This work describes a novel aerobic oxidation of aldehydes with high yields by CAAC-Cu dioxygen activating the C–H bond in water at room temperature.
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12 Jul 01:29

0D/2D Heterojunctions of Vanadate Quantum Dots/Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanosheets for Enhanced Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalysis

by Meng-Yang Ye, Zhi-Hao Zhao, Zhuo-Feng Hu, Le-Quan Liu, Hui-Ming Ji, Zhu-Rui Shen, Tian-Yi Ma

Abstract

0D/2D heterojunctions, especially quantum dots (QDs)/nanosheets (NSs) have attracted significant attention for use of photoexcited electrons/holes due to their high charge mobility. Herein, unprecedent heterojunctions of vanadate (AgVO3, BiVO4, InVO4 and CuV2O6) QDs/graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) NSs exhibiting multiple unique advances beyond traditional 0D/2D composites have been developed. The photoactive contribution, up-conversion absorption, and nitrogen coordinating sites of g-C3N4 NSs, highly dispersed vanadate nanocrystals, as well as the strong coupling and band alignment between them lead to superior visible-light-driven photoelectrochemical (PEC) and photocatalytic performance, competing with the best reported photocatalysts. This work is expected to provide a new concept to construct multifunctional 0D/2D nanocomposites for a large variety of opto-electronic applications, not limited in photocatalysis.

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Vanadate quantum dots including AgVO3, BiVO4, InVO4, and CuV2O6 were strongly coupled with graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets using an in situ growth strategy. These quantum dots displayed a much better visible-light-driven photoelectrochemical activity and photocatalytic degradation efficiency than single vanadate quantum dots, carbon nitride nanosheets or previously reported highly active photocatalysts.