Cu2O mesoporous spheres with a high internal diffusion capacity and improved catalytic ability for the aza-Henry reaction driven by visible light

Jun Wang; Jingwen Ma; Xiaojie Li; Yang Li; Guoliang Zhang; Fengbao Zhang; Xiaobin Fan

doi:10.1039/c4cc06869f

Cu2O mesoporous spheres with a high internal diffusion capacity and improved catalytic ability for the aza-Henry reaction driven by visible light

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Nov 25;50(91):14237-40. doi: 10.1039/c4cc06869f.

Authors

Jun Wang¹, Jingwen Ma, Xiaojie Li, Yang Li, Guoliang Zhang, Fengbao Zhang, Xiaobin Fan

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China. xiaobinfan@tju.edu.cn.

PMID: 25284627
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc06869f

Abstract

Mesoporous Cu2O spheres with a large pore size (LP-Cu2O) bring out a better performance towards the photocatalytic aza-Henry reaction than Cu2O spheres with a small pore size (SP-Cu2O). This work highlights the internal diffusion coefficient as a critical parameter for the fabrication of porous photocatalysts.