Citation: Min-Min LIU, Shao-Ming YING, Bao-Guo CHEN, Hong-Xu GUO, Xu-Guang HUANG. Ag@g-C₃N₄ Nanocomposite: an Efficient Catalyst Inducing the Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol[J]. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry, ;2021, 40(10): 1372-1378. doi: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254–5861.2011–3178 shu

Ag@g-C₃N₄ Nanocomposite: an Efficient Catalyst Inducing the Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol

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College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Environment, Minnan Normal University, Zhangzhou 363000, China
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Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Featured Materials in Biochemical Industry, College of Chemistry and Materials, Ningde Normal University, Ningde 352100, China
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International College, Krirk University, Bangkok 10220, Thailand

Corresponding author: Hong-Xu GUO, guohx@mnnu.edu.cn
Received Date: 30 March 2021
Accepted Date: 27 April 2021

Fund Project: the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province 2019J01747the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province 2020J01803Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Featured Materials in Biochemical Industry FJKL_FBCM202104China NSF 41976150

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In this study, an efficient catalyst Ag@g-C₃N₄ nanocomposite was successfully synthesized through a simple green reaction, and the characterizations through XRD, FTIR, SEM, BET and XPS were also studied. The activities of Ag@g-C₃N₄ were investigated toward the reduction of 4-nitrophenol to their corresponding aminophenol compounds in the presence of excess NaBH₄ as a reducing agent. The Ag@g-C₃N₄ nanocomposites exhibited high catalytic activities, in which a 92.2% 4-nitrophenol conversion in 10 min and the apparent rate constant K_app = 264.27×10^-3 min^-1 were obtained. The as-prepared Ag@g-C₃N₄ nanocomposites showed great potential in catalytically inducing the reduction of 4-nitrophenol, which makes them economically and energy conservation attractive from industrial waste water treatment.
- Ag@g-C₃N₄,
- catalytic activities,
- the reduction of 4-nitrophenol,
- cycle experiment
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