An efficient photocatalytic synthesis of benzimidazole over cobalt-loaded TiO2 catalysts under solar light irradiation was written by Kumaraswamy, Gullapelli;Sadanandam, Gullapelli;Ledwaba, Kabelo;Maroju, Ravichandar. And the article was included in Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, A: Chemistry in 2022.SDS of cas: 105-13-5 This article mentions the following:
Cobalt-loaded TiO2 (Co-TiO2) based photocatalysts have been successfully used in energy and environmental applications, but their application in synthesis of Benzimidazole from ortho phenylenediamines has never been reported. Benzimidazole is a very important class of heterocyclic compounds and it occupies a unique position in the field of pharmaceutical chem. Here, Co-TiO2 photocatalysts were prepared using an impregnation method and characterized by XRD, UV-Vis DRS, FE-SEM, TEM and Raman techniques. The present study explores the photocatalytic synthesis of 2-Aryl Benzimidazoles over cobalt-loaded TiO2 under solar light irradiation The cobalt-loaded TiO2 catalysts exhibited excellent photocatalytic performance under solar light in the preparation of 2-Aryl Benzimidazoles. This efficient and higher photocatalytic activity can be attributed to the visible light active structure of Co-TiO2 and surface-interacted cobalt species on TiO2 support. In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, (4-Methoxyphenyl)methanol (cas: 105-13-5SDS of cas: 105-13-5).
(4-Methoxyphenyl)methanol (cas: 105-13-5) belongs to ethers. Ether is less polar than esters, alcohols or amines because of the oxygen atom that is unable to participate in hydrogen bonding due to the presence of bulky alkyl groups on both sides of the oxygen atom. Ethers are good solvents partly because they are not very reactive. Most ethers can be cleaved, however, by hydrobromic acid (HBr) to give alkyl bromides or by hydroiodic acid (HI) to give alkyl iodides.SDS of cas: 105-13-5
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