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Cationic cellulose nanofibrils as a green support of palladium nanoparticles: catalyst evaluation in Suzuki reactions

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Cationic cellulose nanofibrils (C-CNF) were used as a support for the growth and the immobilization of Pd NPs using PdCl2 as precursor. The ensuing Pd@C-CNF nanocomposite was tested as a catalyst for the Suzuki coupling reactions between aryl halides and arylboronic acid. Several characterization methods including TEM, HR-TEM, XRD, FT-IR, TGA and XPS were used to confirm the immobilization of Pd NPs onto the C-CNF surface and probe the surface composition after interaction with PdCl2. A quasi total coupling of phenyl boronic acid and 4-bromoacetophenone in DMF at 110 °C was found to occur after 4 h when only 0.02% of Pd@C-CNF of catalyst was used. Furthermore, the Pd@C-CNF could be easily recovered and reused for three consecutive Suzuki reaction cycles without significant loss of its catalytic activity and the loaded percent of palladium nanoparticles was maintained.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the financial support from Spain’s MICINN (CTQ2014-53662-P) and MEC (CTQ2016-81797-REDC) and DURSI-Generalitat de Catalunya (2017SGR465) and, also, to NATO for financial support with project CATALTEX (SfP 984842) and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, for support with Project UID/NAN/50024/2013.

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  1. Faculty of Sciences of Monastir, Laboratory of Interfaces and Advanced Materials, University of Monastir, Boulevard of the Environment, Monastir, Tunisia

    Zayneb Jebali, Abdelkader Nabili & Hatem Majdoub

  2. Faculty of Sciences of Gabes, University of Gabes, Gabes, Tunisia

    Zayneb Jebali

  3. Department of Chemistry and Centro de Innovación en Química (ORFEO-CINQA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus UAB, 08193-Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain

    Albert Granados & Adelina Vallribera

  4. Faculty of Science-LMSE, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

    Sami Boufi

  5. CQFM-Centro de Química-Física Molecular and IN-Institute for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies, IBB-Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal

    Ana Maria B. do Rego

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Jebali, Z., Granados, A., Nabili, A. et al. Cationic cellulose nanofibrils as a green support of palladium nanoparticles: catalyst evaluation in Suzuki reactions. Cellulose 25, 6963–6975 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-018-2085-8

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