Nickel Decorated on Phosphorous-Doped Carbon Nitride as an Efficient Photocatalyst for Reduction of Nitrobenzenes.
Nickel nanoparticle-decorated phosphorous-doped graphitic carbon nitride (Ni@g-PC₃N₄) was synthesized and used as an efficient photoactive catalyst for the reduction of various nitrobenzenes under visible light irradiation. Hydrazine monohydrate was used as the source of protons and electrons for the intended reaction. The developed photocatalyst was found to be highly active and afforded excellent product yields under mild experimental conditions. In addition, the photocatalyst could easily be recovered and reused for several runs without any detectable leaching during the reaction.
CSIR Indian Institute of Petroleum, Haridwar road Mohkampur, Dehradun 248005, India. anuragmnbd@gmail.com.|Academy of Scientific and Industrial Research (AcSIR), New Delhi 110001, India. anuragmnbd@gmail.com.
Anurag
A
Kumar
CSIR Indian Institute of Petroleum, Haridwar road Mohkampur, Dehradun 248005, India. choudhary.2486pawan@yahoo.in.|Academy of Scientific and Industrial Research (AcSIR), New Delhi 110001, India. choudhary.2486pawan@yahoo.in.
Pawan
P
Kumar
CSIR Indian Institute of Petroleum, Haridwar road Mohkampur, Dehradun 248005, India. chetanjoshi019@gmail.com.
Chetan
C
Joshi
CSIR Indian Institute of Petroleum, Haridwar road Mohkampur, Dehradun 248005, India. manvimanchanda@gmail.com.
Manvi
M
Manchanda
Institut d'Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN), UMR CNRS 8520, Université Lille1, Avenue Poincaré-BP 60069, 59652 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. rabah.boukherroub@iemn.univ-lille1.fr.
Rabah
R
Boukherroub
CSIR Indian Institute of Petroleum, Haridwar road Mohkampur, Dehradun 248005, India. suman@iip.res.in.
Suman L
SL
Jain
carbon nitride; nickel nanoparticles; nitrobenzene reduction; photocatalysis; visible light