title: Exploitation of electrostatic field force for immobilization and catalytic reduction of o-nitrobenzoic acid to anthranilic acid on resin-bound silver nanocomposites.
abstract: A new solid-phase catalyst has been designed and reported here for the catalytic reduction of o-nitrobenzoic acid to anthranilic acid. Electrostatic field force helps immobilization, in turn deposition of silver nanoparticles onto solid resin surfaces and reduction of o-nitrobenzoic acid through effective catalysis. While characterization of catalyst particles has been performed by different physical methods (XRD, XPS, SEM, TEM, and EDX) in a worthwhile fashion, selective reduction of o-nitrobenzoic acid has also been achieved conveniently (approximately 95%). Different thermodynamic parameters for the reduction reaction have been presented from varied experimental conditions. Novelty of this work lies with the catalytic efficiency of nanometer size silver particles immobilized solid-phase matrix for one step synthesis of anthranilic acid over bulk silver.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, India.
authors.forename: Subhra
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authors.lastname: Jana
authors.forename: Surojit
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authors.lastname: Pande
authors.forename: Sudipa
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authors.lastname: Panigrahi
authors.forename: Snigdhamayee
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authors.lastname: Praharaj
authors.forename: Soumen
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authors.lastname: Basu
authors.forename: Anjali
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authors.lastname: Pal
authors.forename: Tarasankar
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authors.lastname: Pal