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Gan Ye1, Guangming Shi1, Ruodi Huang1
1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an 710055, China.
Abstract:
The development of novel host-guest catalysts with nanoscale active sites provides new opportunities to gain highly efficient catalytic performance for the oxidation of aromatic alcohols into high-value compounds. In this work, we develop a green and facile synthesis method to incorporate Pd nanoparticles (PdNP) into a robust hierarchical porous Zr-metal-organic framework (Zr-IPA) through in situ solvent-free synthesis and wet reduction techniques. The optimized PdNP/Zr-IPA catalyst exhibits exceptional benzyl alcohol oxidation performance, selectively oxidizing 95.3% of benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde (yield of 97.7%) at 70 °C within 12 h. Additionally, PdNP/Zr-IPA demonstrates superior catalytic activity for the oxidation of various aromatic alcohols using different oxidants. The turnover frequency of PdNP/Zr-IPA reaches 82.3 h-1 at 70 °C, which is 4.2 times larger than that of pre-PdNP/Zr-IPA and surpasses most reported MOF-based catalysts in benzyl alcohol oxidation reactions. Quenching and electron paramagnetic resonance tests verified that the exposed (111) faces of the PdNP in the PdNP/Zr-IPA structure can react with oxidants to generate •O2- radicals, which play a dominant role in oxidizing benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde. Our work provides a solvent-free synthesis and a wet reduction strategy for confining nanoparticles within MOFs to enhance catalytic activity in targeted reactions.
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