Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol Using Ficin Capped Gold Nanoclusters as Catalyst

doi:10.1007/s40242-019-9070-0

Chemical Research in Chinese Universities ›› 2019, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (4): 636-640.doi: 10.1007/s40242-019-9070-0

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Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol Using Ficin Capped Gold Nanoclusters as Catalyst

WU Han^1,2, CAI Huiwu¹, QIAO Juan^2,3, QI Li^2,3

1. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710054, P. R. China;
2. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China;
3. School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China

Received:2019-03-13 Revised:2019-05-12 Online:2019-08-01 Published:2019-08-01
Contact: CAI Huiwu, QI Li E-mail:qili@iccas.ac.cn;caihuiwu@126.com
Supported by:
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21635008, 21621062).

Abstract

Abstract: Conversion of nitroarenes to aminoarenes has attracted great attention in pharmaceutical industry, agricultural production, environmental protection and chemical catalysis area. In this work, ficin capped gold nanoclusters(ficin@AuNCs) were prepared for the reduction of 4-nitrophenol to 4-aminophenol. The proposed catalyst was characterized by transmission electron microscopy, dynamic light scattering, fluorescence spectra and UV-Vis spectra. With NaBH₄ as the reducing agent, the reduction reaction could carry out completely within 10 min at 25℃. Interestingly, the resultant catalyst exhibited size-related properties in the reduction, smaller ficin@AuNCs exhibited higher catalytic activity. Its present pseudo-first-order rate constant was found to be 2.95×10^‒3 s^‒1 and the catalytic activation energy was 27.7 kJ/mol. Moreover, ficin@AuNCs-based catalyst displayed good stability, heading to 4-nitrophenol conversion of 98.5%-100.0% after six consecutive cycles. It has shown a great potential in construction of unique catalysts based on AuNCs for reduction reaction.

Key words: Ficin capped gold nanocluster, 4-Nitrophenol, 4-Aminophenol, Catalytic activation

WU Han, CAI Huiwu, QIAO Juan, QI Li. Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol Using Ficin Capped Gold Nanoclusters as Catalyst[J]. Chemical Research in Chinese Universities, 2019, 35(4): 636-640.

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