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Au Nanoparticles Confined in SBA-15 as a Highly Efficient and Stable Catalyst for Hydrogenation of Quinoline to 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydroquinoline

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Au nanoparticles confined within the mesopores of the modified SBA-15 were obtained through adsorption-reduction method and firstly employed as chemoselective catalyst for quinoline hydrogenation. The effects of Au loadings, calcination temperature as well as structure of support on catalytic performances of Au catalysts were explored. The as-obtained 1.2%Au@SBA-15-500 catalyst exhibited high activity, excellent selectivity towards 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline and extraordinary sintering-resistant property as high as 800 °C, which is sharp contrast to the 1.3%Au/SiO2-500 catalyst. It also showed good recyclability and versatility for quinoline derivatives. The observed properties were assigned to small-sized Au nanoparticles and mesopores of SBA-15. Our work provides a facile and promising approach to construct metal nanocatalysts with high catalytic performance by the use of mesoporous materials.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 21576248, 21671178 and 21571159) and a research fund from the doctoral program of Zhengzhou University of Light Industry (Grant No. 2014BSJJ007). The authors honestly thank Yongfa Zhu in Tsinghua University for good advices about XPS analysis.

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    Jianbo Zhao, Haifeng Yuan, Kuan Tian, Yingfan Liu & Zhiqiang Zhang

  2. Henan Province Key Laboratory of New Opto-Electronic Functional Materials, Anyang Normal University, Anyang, Henan, 455000, People’s Republic of China

    Chengzhen Wei

  3. Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Science, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, No. 136 of Science Road, Zhengzhou, 450001, People’s Republic of China

    Liming Zhou & Shaoming Fang

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Zhao, J., Yuan, H., Qin, X. et al. Au Nanoparticles Confined in SBA-15 as a Highly Efficient and Stable Catalyst for Hydrogenation of Quinoline to 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydroquinoline. Catal Lett 150, 2841–2849 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-020-03190-3

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