Efficient iron single-atom catalysts for selective ammoxidation of alcohols to nitriles was written by Sun, Kangkang;Shan, Hongbin;Neumann, Helfried;Lu, Guo-Ping;Beller, Matthias. And the article was included in Nature Communications in 2022.Reference of 105-13-5 This article mentions the following:
Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks derived Fe1-N-C catalysts with isolated single iron atoms were synthesized and applied for selective ammoxidation reactions. For the preparation of the different Fe-based materials, benzylamine as an additive proved to be essential to tune the morphol. and size of ZIFs resulting in uniform and smaller particles, which allowed stable atomically dispersed Fe-N4 active sites. The optimal catalyst Fe1-N-C achieved an efficient synthesis of various aryl, heterocyclic, allylic, and aliphatic nitriles from alcs. in water under very mild conditions. With its chemoselectivity, recyclability, high efficiency under mild conditions this new system complemented the toolbox of catalysts for nitrile synthesis, which were important intermediates with many applications in life sciences and industry. In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, (4-Methoxyphenyl)methanol (cas: 105-13-5Reference of 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.Reference of 105-13-5
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