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Magnetically Recoverable Gold Nanorods as a Novel Catalyst for the Facile Reduction of Nitroarenes Under Aqueous Conditions

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In this work, cysteine-functionalized Fe3O4@Carbon magnetic nanoparticles were used for the synthesis of gold nanorods. Fe3O4@C nanoparticles were first prepared by synthesis of Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs), and then carbon-coated MNPs (Fe3O4@C) were synthesized by glucose carbonization using a hydrothermal method. Finally, the gold NRs were loaded on the modified surface of Fe3O4@C MNPs. The designed magnetically recoverable gold nanorods, after full characterization by FTIR, SEM, TEM, TGA, VSM, XRD, and ICP-OES, were applied to the reduction of nitroarenes. The Fe3O4@C@Cys–Au nanorods showed higher performance than Fe3O4@C@Cys–Au nanospheres in a selective facile reduction of nitroarenes to the corresponding aminoarenes in aqueous medium at room temperature using NaBH4.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, 91775-1436, Mashhad, Iran

    Kamran Lamei, Hossein Eshghi & Mehdi Bakavoli

  2. Organic and Nano Group (ONG), Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran

    Sadegh Rostamnia

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Lamei, K., Eshghi, H., Bakavoli, M. et al. Magnetically Recoverable Gold Nanorods as a Novel Catalyst for the Facile Reduction of Nitroarenes Under Aqueous Conditions. Catal Lett 147, 491–501 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-016-1921-4

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