Sustainable oxidation catalysis supported by light: Fe-poly (heptazine imide) as a heterogeneous single-atom photocatalyst

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  • Marcos A.R. da Silva
  • Ingrid F. Silva
  • Qi Xue
  • Benedict T.W. Lo
  • Nadezda V. Tarakina
  • Barbara N. Nunes
  • Peter Adler
  • Sudhir K. Sahoo
  • Detlef W. Bahnemann
  • Nieves López-Salas
  • Aleksandr Savateev
  • Caue Ribeiro
  • Thomas D. Kühne
  • Markus Antonietti
  • Ivo F. Teixeira

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  • Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar)
  • Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  • Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Universidade Federal de Uberlandia
  • Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (MPI CPfS)
  • Paderborn University
  • Embrapa Agrobiologia Seropédica, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
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Original languageEnglish
Article number120965
JournalApplied Catalysis B: Environmental
Volume304
Early online date27 Nov 2021
Publication statusPublished - May 2022

Abstract

Fe-N-C materials, when prepared as single-atom catalysts (SAC), display excellent activities in oxidation reactions. The systematic investigation of the iron coordination mode revealed that Fe-N4C catalysts are the most active for C-H bond oxidation. However, many of these catalysts are synthesized through pyrolysis, which is characterized by a lack of control and structures with heterogeneous composition, rarely presenting only atomically dispersed Fe−N − C as active sites. Herein, an alternative, reliable and easily reproducible method to obtain highly active Fe SACs (atomically dispersed) with Fe-N4 sites is presented, which is based on ion exchange of sodium from high crystalline sodium poly(heptazine imide) (Na-PHI) by other ions. The obtained catalyst can photocatalytically oxidize C-H bonds selectively toward ketones using only dioxygen. Detailed mechanism investigations indicate that the active species in the C-H bond oxidation are highly valent Fe(IV)/Fe(V)-oxo species, which are further activated by the holes generated at the PHI support under light irradiation.

Keywords

    Benzene Oxidation, Iron, Photooxidation, Poly (heptazine imide), Single-atom catalysis

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Sustainable oxidation catalysis supported by light: Fe-poly (heptazine imide) as a heterogeneous single-atom photocatalyst. / da Silva, Marcos A.R.; Silva, Ingrid F.; Xue, Qi et al.
In: Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Vol. 304, 120965, 05.2022.

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da Silva, MAR, Silva, IF, Xue, Q, Lo, BTW, Tarakina, NV, Nunes, BN, Adler, P, Sahoo, SK, Bahnemann, DW, López-Salas, N, Savateev, A, Ribeiro, C, Kühne, TD, Antonietti, M & Teixeira, IF 2022, 'Sustainable oxidation catalysis supported by light: Fe-poly (heptazine imide) as a heterogeneous single-atom photocatalyst', Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, vol. 304, 120965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120965
da Silva, M. A. R., Silva, I. F., Xue, Q., Lo, B. T. W., Tarakina, N. V., Nunes, B. N., Adler, P., Sahoo, S. K., Bahnemann, D. W., López-Salas, N., Savateev, A., Ribeiro, C., Kühne, T. D., Antonietti, M., & Teixeira, I. F. (2022). Sustainable oxidation catalysis supported by light: Fe-poly (heptazine imide) as a heterogeneous single-atom photocatalyst. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 304, Article 120965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120965
da Silva MAR, Silva IF, Xue Q, Lo BTW, Tarakina NV, Nunes BN et al. Sustainable oxidation catalysis supported by light: Fe-poly (heptazine imide) as a heterogeneous single-atom photocatalyst. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 2022 May;304:120965. Epub 2021 Nov 27. doi: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120965
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