Earth abundant metals are much less expensive,promising,valuable metals and could be served as catalysts for the borrowing hydrogen reaction,dehydrogenation and heterocycles synthesis,instead of noble metals.The unifo...Earth abundant metals are much less expensive,promising,valuable metals and could be served as catalysts for the borrowing hydrogen reaction,dehydrogenation and heterocycles synthesis,instead of noble metals.The uniformly dispersed zinc composites were designed,synthesized and carefully characterized by means of XPS,EDS,TEM and XRD.The resulting zinc composite showed good catalytic activity for the N-alkylation of amines with amines,ketones with alcohols in water under base-free conditions,while unsaturated carbonyl compounds could also be synthesized by tuning the reaction conditions.Importantly,it was the first time to realize the synthesis of 2-aryl-1H-benzo[d]imidazole derivatives by using this zinc composite under green conditions.Meanwhile,this zinc catalyst could be easily recovered and reused for at least five times.展开更多
基金financial support of this work by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21776111,21861039)State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering(No.202001)Central Laboratory,School of Chemical and Material Engineering,Jiangnan University。
文摘Earth abundant metals are much less expensive,promising,valuable metals and could be served as catalysts for the borrowing hydrogen reaction,dehydrogenation and heterocycles synthesis,instead of noble metals.The uniformly dispersed zinc composites were designed,synthesized and carefully characterized by means of XPS,EDS,TEM and XRD.The resulting zinc composite showed good catalytic activity for the N-alkylation of amines with amines,ketones with alcohols in water under base-free conditions,while unsaturated carbonyl compounds could also be synthesized by tuning the reaction conditions.Importantly,it was the first time to realize the synthesis of 2-aryl-1H-benzo[d]imidazole derivatives by using this zinc composite under green conditions.Meanwhile,this zinc catalyst could be easily recovered and reused for at least five times.