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Converting Co2+-impregnated g-C3N4 into N-doped CNTs-confined Co nanoparticles for efficient hydrogenation rearrangement reactions of furanic aldehydes

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The cyclopentanone and derivatives are a class of crucial fine chemicals for various industries and currently produced by conventional petrochemical synthetic routes. Here, we demonstrated a new synthetic approach to directly fabricate N-doped carbon nanotube (N-CNTs) networks with confined Co nanoparticles from Co2+-impregnated bulk g-C3N4 as high performance hydrogenation rearrangement (HR) catalyst to efficiently convert a wide spectrum of biomass-derived furanic aldehydes to the corresponding cyclopentanones in water under a record-low H2 pressure of 0.5 MPa and mild temperature. We unveiled a Co-catalysed bulk g-C3N4 decomposition/carbonisation CNTs formation mechanism. A new HR pathway was also unveiled.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51871209 and 51902311), and the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (No. 2019M652223).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Centre for Environmental and Energy Nanomaterials, Anhui Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, CAS Centre for Excellence in Nanoscience, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, China

    Dongdong Wang, Wanbing Gong, Yang Lv, Chun Chen, Guozhong Wang, Haimin Zhang & Huijun Zhao

  2. University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China

    Dongdong Wang & Yang Lv

  3. Centre for Clean Environment and Energy, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, 4222, Australia

    Mohammad Al-Mamun & Huijun Zhao

  4. Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China

    Yue Lin

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Wang, D., Al-Mamun, M., Gong, W. et al. Converting Co2+-impregnated g-C3N4 into N-doped CNTs-confined Co nanoparticles for efficient hydrogenation rearrangement reactions of furanic aldehydes. Nano Res. 14, 2846–2852 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3298-y

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