Sustainable Nanocatalysts for Organic Transformations
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanostructured Catalysts".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 October 2021) | Viewed by 6666
Special Issue Editors
Interests: organic chemistry; nano-catalysts; heterogeneous reactions
2. ORD National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA
Interests: comprehensively broad research interests ranging from eco-friendly synthetic methods using mechanochemical mixing, photocatalysis, microwaves, ultrasound, etc.; to greener assembly of nanomaterials and sustainable appliances of magnetically retrievable nanocatalysts in benign media, preferably utilizing biomass-derived chemicals including biowaste and economic consumption of agricultural residues
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Synthetic organic transformations are vital for the manufacture of a large variety of pharmaceuticals, polymers, agrochemicals, intermediates, and fine chemical products. Metal nanoparticle-based catalysts (nanocatalysts) are essential emerging materials in enhancing these advanced processes due to their unique catalytic activities and selectivities; they are appropriate substitutes for traditional catalysts in promoting various catalytic transformations. Consequently, their applications for expediting organic reactions have seen tremendous progress in recent years in view of the nanotechnology advancements that enable precise control of the size, shape, and morphology of such compositions. Nanocatalysts can be adorned on rigid supports such as carbon, mesoporous silica, and zeolites, thus creating sustainable catalytic systems. They can be endowed with magnetic properties for their facile retrieval and reuse, rendering them an ideal system for industrial practicability.
This Special Issue is devoted to the applications of various nanostructured catalysts, issues associated with heterogeneous catalytic transformations and applications in greener and sustainable processes, and diverse organic reactions attained by nanocatalysts. Reviews and original research papers are invited from fundamental to industrial application on nanostructured or nanobased catalysts having potential application in any organic transformations. The potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Name reactions catalyzed by nanocatalysts;
- Recent developments in advanced nanocatalysts;
- Methods for characterizations in heterogeneous organic reactions;
- Various organic reactions catalyzed by nanocatalysts;
- Nanostructured catalysts for greener and sustainable organic processes;
- Retrievable and reusable nanocatalysts;
- Solid supported nanocatalysts for diverse catalytic transformations;
- Magnetic nanocomposite catalysts;
- Oxidation and reduction reactions by nanocatalysts;
- Cross-coupling and tandem reactions by nanocatalysts.
Prof. Dr. Mohammadreza Shokouhimehr
Prof. Dr. Rajender S. Varma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Nanocatalysts
- Name reactions
- Sustainable processes
- Heterogeneous reactions
- Magnetic nanocatalysts
- Reusable nanocatalysts
- Greener reactions
