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Glass wool: a novel support for heterogeneous catalysis.

ABSTRACT: Heterogeneous catalysis presents significant advantages over homogeneous catalysis such as ease of separation and reuse of the catalyst. Here we show that a very inexpensive, manageable and widely available material - glass wool - can act as a catalyst support for a number of different reactions. Different metal and metal oxide nanoparticles, based on Pd, Co, Cu, Au and Ru, were deposited on glass wool and used as heterogeneous catalysts for a variety of thermal and photochemical organic reactions including reductive de-halogenation of aryl halides, reduction of nitrobenzene, Csp³-Csp³ couplings, N-C heterocycloadditions (click chemistry) and Csp-Csp² couplings (Sonogashira couplings). The use of glass wool as a catalyst support for important organic reactions, particularly C-C couplings, opens the opportunity to develop economical heterogeneous catalysts with excellent potential for flow photo-chemistry application.

SUBMITTER: Elhage A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6114997 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

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Glass wool: a novel support for heterogeneous catalysis.

Elhage Ayda A Wang Bowen B Marina Nancy N Marin M Luisa ML Cruz Menandro M Lanterna Anabel E AE Scaiano Juan C JC

Chemical science 20180712 33

Heterogeneous catalysis presents significant advantages over homogeneous catalysis such as ease of separation and reuse of the catalyst. Here we show that a very inexpensive, manageable and widely available material - glass wool - can act as a catalyst support for a number of different reactions. Different metal and metal oxide nanoparticles, based on Pd, Co, Cu, Au and Ru, were deposited on glass wool and used as heterogeneous catalysts for a variety of thermal and photochemical organic reactio ...[more]

PMID: 30310617

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