title: Photochemically engineering the metal-semiconductor interface for room-temperature transfer hydrogenation of nitroarenes with formic acid.
abstract: A mild photochemical approach was applied to construct highly coupled metal-semiconductor dyads, which were found to efficiently facilitate the hydrogenation of nitrobenzene. Aniline was produced in excellent yield (>99 %, TOF: 1183) using formic acid as hydrogen source and water as solvent at room temperature. This general and green catalytic process is applicable to a wide range of nitroarenes without the involvement of high-pressure gases or sacrificial additives.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240 (China).
authors.forename: Xin-Hao
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yi-Yu
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Ling-Hong
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Kai-Xue
authors.initials: KX
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hong-Liang
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Bao
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Jie-Sheng
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Chen
keywords: formic acid; heterogeneous catalysis; hydrogenation; interfaces; sustainable chemistry