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Efficient Rare-Earth-Based Coordination Polymers as Green Photocatalysts for the Synthesis of Imines at Room
Lina M Aguirre-Díaz1, Natalia Snejko1, Marta Iglesias1
1Departamento de Nuevas Arquitecturas en Química de Materiales, Materials Science Factory , Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas , Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 3 , Cantoblanco, Madrid 28049 , Spain.
Abstract:
Five new rare-earth coordination polymers (CPs) were designed in order to offer a remarkable platform that contains light-harvesting antennas and catalytic active centers to achieve solar-energy conversion as green alternatives in the synthesis of imines. These five new spirobifluorene-containing Ln-CPs, named [Er3(Hsfdc)3(sfdc)3(H2O)]· xH2O (RPF-30-Er), [Ln(Hsfdc)(sfdc)(EtOH)]·S (RPF-31-Ln, where Ln = La, Nd, and Sm and S = H2O or EtOH), and [Ho(Hsfdc)(sfdc)(H2O)] (RPF-32-Ho) (RPF = rare-earth polymeric framework and H2sfdc = 9,9'-spirobi[9 H-fluorene]-2,2'-dicarboxylic acid), have been solvothermally synthesized, and their structural features can be described as follows: (i) RPF-30-Er shows a 3D framework in which the inorganic trimers (secondary building units) are cross-linked by Hsfdc- and sfdc2- linkers displaying a pcu topology. (ii) The isostructural RPF-31-Ln series of materials, together with RPF-32-Ho, exhibit a 1D network of chains growing along the a axis with a ribbon-of-rings topology type. The photocatalytic activity of the RPF- n materials was tested in the oxidative coupling of amines using molecular oxygen and air as oxidizing agents under warm light. Among the materials investigated, RPF-31-Nd was chosen to further investigate the approach in the selectivity of different amine derivates.
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