Molecular Cage Impregnated Palladium Nanoparticles: Efficient, Additive-Free Heterogeneous Catalysts for Cyanation of Aryl Halides

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• 作者：Bijnaneswar Mondal ; Koushik Acharyya ; Prodip Howlader ; Partha Sarathi Mukherjee
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 10, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：138
• 期：5
• 页码：1709-1716
• 全文大小：578K
• ISSN：1520-5126

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Two shape-persistent covalent cages (CC1^r and CC2^r) have been devised from triphenyl amine-based trialdehydes and cyclohexane diamine building blocks utilizing the dynamic imine chemistry followed by imine bond reduction. The cage compounds have been characterized by several spectroscopic techniques which suggest that CC1^r and CC2^r are [2+3] and [8+12] self-assembled architectures, respectively. These state-of-the-art molecules have a porous interior and stable aromatic backbone with multiple palladium binding sites to engineer the controlled synthesis and stabilization of ultrafine palladium nanoparticles (PdNPs). As-synthesized cage-embedded PdNPs have been characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD). Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry reveals that Pd@CC1^r and Pd@CC2^r have 40 and 25 wt% palladium loading, respectively. On the basis of TEM analysis, it has been estimated that as small as ～1.8 nm PdNPs could be stabilized inside the CC1^r, while larger CC2^r could stabilize ～3.7 nm NPs. In contrast, reduction of palladium salts in the absence of the cages form structure less agglomerates. The well-dispersed cage-embedded NPs exhibit efficient catalytic performance in the cyanation of aryl halides under heterogeneous, additive-free condition. Moreover, these materials have excellent stability and recyclability without any agglomeration of PdNPs after several cycles.