Ultrasound assisted arylation of benzyl alcohol with 4-nitrochlorobenzene under a new multi-site phase-transfer catalyst in solid–liquid condition

The ultrasound assisted preparation of 1-(benzyloxy)-4-nitrobenzene from the reaction of 4-chloronitrobenzene (CNB) and benzyl alcohol was carried out successfully using potassium hydroxide and catalyzed by a new multi-site phase-transfer catalyst (MPTC) viz., 1,3,5-triethyl-1,3,5-trihexyl-1,3,5-triazinane-1,3,5-triium trichloride in a solid–liquid reaction condition (SL-MPTC). The advantage of using SL-MPTC is to avoid a serious hydration of potassium salt of benzyl alcohol in the reaction between 4-chloronitrobenzene (CNB) and benzyl alcohol. The reaction is greatly enhanced in the solid–liquid system, catalyzed by multi-site quaternary ammonium salt (MPTC) and ultrasound irradiation (40 kHz, 300 W) in a batch reactor, it shows that the overall reaction greatly enhanced with ultrasound irradiation than without ultrasound. The reaction mechanism is proposed and verified by examining the experimental evidence. A kinetic model is proposed in which a pseudo first-order rate law is sufficient to describe the results, such as the effects of agitation speed, ultrasound, different phase transfer catalysts and the effect of organic solvents, the amount of newly prepared MPTC, the effect of temperature, the amount of water, the concentration of 4-chloronitrobenzene (CNB) and potassium hydroxide concentrations. The apparent rate constant (k_app) were investigated in detail. Rational explanations to account for the phenomena on the results were made.     

The electrochemical determination of phenolic derivates using multiple pulsed amperometry with graphite based electrodes

The electrochemical determinations of 4-chlorophenol (4-CP) and 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) by chronoamperometry (CA) and multiple pulsed amperometry (MPA) using expanded graphite-epoxy composite (EG-Epoxy) and rotating spectral graphite disc (SG) electrodes are reported. The electrochemical behaviours of both electrodes in the presence of organics informed about oxidation peak potential and the electrode fouling with organics concentration increasing. Setting up the oxidation peak potential as detection potential, only SG gave good electroanalytical performance using CA. However, by MPA applying both electrodes exhibited the capability to assess electrochemically and quantitatively the pollutants from aqueous solutions. UV spectrometric method detecting 4-CP and 4-NP at λ = 280 nm and λ = 398 nm wavelength, respectively was used for validation and parallel determinations.     

铜纳米粒子/聚丙烯酸/石墨烯纳米复合材料修饰玻碳电极检测水中的4-硝基苯酚

采用一种温和且简单的原位生长法将铜纳米粒子和石墨烯非共价键合,得到铜纳米粒子/聚丙烯酸/石墨烯(CuNPs/PAA/GR)纳米复合材料,对4-硝基苯酚(4-NP)表现出良好的电催化活性.用扫描电镜对此纳米复合材料的形貌进行了表征.以此材料修饰的玻碳电极受吸附控制,4-NP在该电极表面的反应机理为两电子转移过程,电子转移数n=2.3,修饰电极的有效面积为0.6275 cm2,是裸电极的2.22倍,电极吸附量Гs为1.6×10-11 mol/cm2,催化速率常数kcat的平均值为1.15×104 L/(mol/s).修饰电极的响应电流与4-NP的浓度在1 ～ 150 μmol/L范围内呈良好的线性关系,线性方程为:Ipa(μA)=-0.015C(μmol/L)-0.98,(R2 =0.9951),检出限为0.23 μmol/L(S/N=3).此传感器制备简单、灵敏性高、稳定性和重现性好.使用此传感器检测实际水样中4-NP的回收率为88.6％～ 100.7％,相对标准偏差为2.6％ ～5.9％.     

Extraction of Priority Pollutant 4-Nitrophenol from Water by Emulsion Liquid Membrane: Emulsion Stability,Effect of Operational Conditions and Membrane Reuse

This work aims to the extraction of the priority pollutant 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) from water by emulsion liquid membrane (ELM). Liquid membrane consists of a diluent (hexane) and a surfactant (Span 80). Sodium carbonate solution was used as internal aqueous phase. Effects of important experimental conditions governing the stability of the W/O emulsion were investigated. Influence of operating parameters that affects the permeation of 4-NP such as surfactant concentration, emulsification time, sulfuric acid concentration in external phase, acid type in external phase, internal phase concentration, type of internal phase, stirring speed, volume ratio of internal phase to membrane phase, treatment ratio, 4-NP initial concentration, and diluent type was examined. This study also evaluated the effect of Na₂CO₃ concentration in the internal aqueous phase on the stripping of 4-NP. Additionally, the reuse of the recovered membrane was studied. Under most favorable conditions, practically all the 4-NP and aniline (AN) molecules present in the feed phase were extracted. The recovery of the membrane phase was total and the extraction of 4-NP was not decreased. The ELM treatment process represents a very interesting advanced separation process for the removal of 4-NP and AN from aqueous solutions.     

Electrospun Nanofibers Containing p-Nitrophenol Imprinted Nanoparticles for the Hydrolysis of Paraoxon

p-Nitrophenol imprinted nanoparticles with a size range of 150-300 nm in diameter were prepared through miniemulsion polymerization. The imprinted polymer exhibited higher adsorption capacity for p-nitrophenol than the nonimprinted polymer. The hydrolysis of paraoxon in aqueous phase can be accelerated in the presence of the p-nitrophenol imprinted nanoparticles. The hydrolysis rate of paraoxon incorporated with the imprinted nanoparticles was 2.83×10-7 mol/（L·min）, which was about 3.7 times higher compared to the non-imprinted nanoparticles, 12.7 times higher to the spontaneous hydrolysis. The nanoparticles have been mixed with polyacrylonitrile solution and electrospun into nanofibers, which can also be used to accelerate the hydrolysis of paraoxon and conveniently separated from liquid phase for further processing.     

High-throughput synthesis of size-controlled Pt-based catalysts

Pt catalysts are commonly used for chemical reaction processes due to its high catalytic activity and selectivity. Notably, the size of metal particles often has a significant impact on the performance of the metal-loaded catalysts. Therefore, developing highly efficiently synthesis method for the size control of Pt catalysts has great development prospects and research value. In this study, high-throughput size tuning of Pt-based catalysts was achieved by carbonizing the carriers. The experimental and characterization results showed that the size of the loaded Pt nanoparticles varied with different concentrations of glucose solution during carriers carbonization process. The reduction of 4-nitrophenol as a template reaction indicated that the reaction rate constant of the catalyst is approximately linear with the size of Pt particles. Importantly, a laboratory-built high-throughput synthesis system was applied for the catalyst synthesis, which enhances the automation of the laboratory exploratory experiments and makes it possible to synthesize catalysts with controllable size in batches.     

On-line selective solid-phase extraction of 4-nitrophenol with β-cyclodextrin bonded silica

The selective analysis of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) from water samples using on-line solid-phase extraction (SPE) coupled to HPLC system was studied. The β-cyclodextrin bonded silica (CDS) was utilized as the selective sorbent. Using 100 ml of sample solution spiked with 4-nitrophenol and other six phenols (Ph) in double distilled water, the sorbent showed strong capacity in adsorbing 4-nitrophenol and the recovery was 104% with the detection limit of 0.017 μg/l. The selectivity was investigated by utilizing a washing step with acetonitrile after preconcentration and only 4-nitrophenol was detected with the recovery of 99%. Donghu lake (Wuhan, China) water sample was used to test the on-line SPE-HPLC system and 4-nitrophenol was selectively extracted with the recovery obtained as 90%.     

结构型载体负载纳米银合成及催化性能

通过两步聚合法合成具有温度敏感性能的核-壳型聚(苯乙烯-N-异丙基丙烯酰胺)/N-异丙基丙烯酰胺共聚3-(甲基丙烯酰氧)丙基三甲氧基硅烷(P(St-NIPAM)/P(NIPAM-co-MPTMS))复合微凝胶材料.以经3-巯丙基-三甲氧基硅烷(MPS)表面修饰的复合微凝胶为载体,乙醇为还原剂,在温和条件下控制性还原制备纳米银微粒.通过扫描电子显微镜(SEM)、透射电子显微镜(TEM)、傅里叶变换红外(FT-IR)光谱仪、X-射线光电子能谱(XPS)、X射线衍射(XRD)仪、热分析(TGA)和紫外-可见(UV-Vis)分光光度计等手段对P(St-NIPAM)/P(NIPAM-co-MPTMS)-(SH)Ag复合微凝胶的结构、组成和性质进行表征.同时,以硼氢化钠还原对硝基苯酚为模型反应,对该复合材料催化还原性能进行了评价.结果表明,载体含有巯基的有机-无机杂化网络结构的限域作用使原位合成的纳米银微粒的分散性较好.载体微凝胶壳层链节中无机组分MPTMS的引入在一定程度上降低了复合凝胶温敏性,但复合凝胶仍表现出催化还原反应的温敏性调控和良好的催化活性.以上实验结果与温敏性PNIPAM链节被无机网络分隔而有利于反应传质及壳层巯基对原位纳米银形成尺寸和空间分布的有效控制有关.本研究对功能性金属纳米催化复合材料的研究具有积极借鉴意义.     

Computational and experimental study on the influence of the porogen on the selectivity of 4-nitrophenol molecularly imprinted polymers

In molecular imprinting the porogen plays a decisive role, as it not only affects the physical properties of the resulting polymer including its porosity, the specific surface area, and the swelling behavior, but also governs the stability of the prepolymerization complex, which in turn decisively determines the recognition properties of the resulting molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP).     

Using waste to treat waste: Red mud induced hierarchical porous γ-AlOOH and γ-Al2O3 microspheres as superior Pd support for catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol

Toward the imperative treatment of the industrial wastewater containing 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) and industrial solid waste red mud (RM), an innovative approach of “Using waste to treat waste” is developed. Valuable element Al is leached from the RM first, the resultant NaAlO₂ solution is hydrothermally converted to γ-AlOOH hierarchical porous microspheres (RM γ-AlOOH HPMSs, average diameter: 2.0 μm, S_BET: 77.81 m² g⁻¹, pore volume: 0.38 cm³ g⁻¹) in the presence of urea. The subsequent mild thermal conversion results in γ-Al₂O₃ hierarchical porous microspheres (RM γ-Al₂O₃ HPMSs). Both of the RM γ-AlOOH and RM γ-Al₂O₃ HPMSs are employed as the Pd catalyst support for the catalytic reduction of 4-NP. Particularly, the as-obtained composite Pd/RM γ-AlOOH and Pd/RM γ-Al₂O₃ exhibit excellent catalytic activities with superior k_nor as 8204.5 and 4831.4 s⁻¹ g⁻¹, respectively, significantly higher than that of most Pd based catalysts. Moreover, the excellent catalytic stability and durability of the Pd/RM γ-AlOOH and Pd/RM γ-Al₂O₃ within 10 successive cycles of reduction enable the present industrial solid waste RM induced γ-AlOOH and γ-Al₂O₃ HPMSs as great promising Pd catalyst support for the reduction of the industrial wastewater containing 4-NP.