title: A Prussian blue/carbon dot nanocomposite as an efficient visible light active photocatalyst for C-H activation of amines.
abstract: A Prussian blue/carbon dot (PB/CD) nanocomposite was synthesised and used as a visible-light active photocatalyst for the oxidative cyanation of tertiary amines to α-aminonitriles by using NaCN/acetic acid as a cyanide source and H2O2as an oxidant. The developed photocatalyst afforded high yields of products after 8 h of visible light irradiation at room temperature. The catalyst was recycled and reused several times without any significant loss in its activity.
authors.affiliation: Institut d'Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN), UMR CNRS 8520, Université Lille 1, Avenue Poincaré, BP 60069, 59652 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. rabah.boukherroub@univ-lille1.fr and Département de Physique, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Université de Tunis-El Manar, 2092, Tunisia.
authors.forename: Houcem
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Maaoui
authors.affiliation: CSIR Indian Institute of Petroleum, Haridwar Road Mohkampur, Dehradun 248005, India. suman@iip.res.in and Academy of Scientific and Industrial Research (AcSIR), New Delhi, 110001, India.
authors.forename: Pawan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: CSIR Indian Institute of Petroleum, Haridwar Road Mohkampur, Dehradun 248005, India. suman@iip.res.in and Academy of Scientific and Industrial Research (AcSIR), New Delhi, 110001, India.
authors.forename: Anurag
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3888 Dong Nanhu Road, Changchun 130033, China.
authors.forename: Guo-Hui
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.affiliation: Centre des Recherches et des Technologies de l'Energie, B.P. 95 Hammam-Lif, 2050, Tunisia.
authors.forename: Radouane
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chtourou
authors.affiliation: Institut d'Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN), UMR CNRS 8520, Université Lille 1, Avenue Poincaré, BP 60069, 59652 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. rabah.boukherroub@univ-lille1.fr.
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Szunerits
authors.affiliation: Institut d'Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN), UMR CNRS 8520, Université Lille 1, Avenue Poincaré, BP 60069, 59652 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. rabah.boukherroub@univ-lille1.fr.
authors.forename: Rabah
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Boukherroub
authors.affiliation: CSIR Indian Institute of Petroleum, Haridwar Road Mohkampur, Dehradun 248005, India. suman@iip.res.in.
authors.forename: Suman L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Jain