Multicomponent click reaction catalyzed by organic surfactant-free copper sulfide (sf-CuS) nano/micro flowers

Publication date: Available online 28 January 2019Source: Journal of Organometallic ChemistryAuthor(s): Venkateswara Rao Velpuri, Krishnamurthi MuralidharanAbstractThe azide-alkyne cycloaddition (Huisgen reaction) is one of the most powerful and widely used copper-mediated reactions. In many such reactions, use of metal or metal oxide nanoparticles as the catalyst is more appealing because of the increased catalytic activity attributed to the large surface to volume ratio. However, the nano/micro particles are synthesized often in the presence of long chain organic molecules as capping or stabilizing agents. These organic molecules cover the active centers and restrict or reduce their catalytic activity. Therefore, we have synthesized the copper sulfide (sf-CuS) nano/micro particles without having organic surfactant molecules as the capping agent. These particles with a flower-like architecture (micro flowers, mf) were obtained readily under the supersaturated condition at room temperature. In these particles, the surface was freely available for adsorption and desorption reactions. When utilized as a catalyst in multicomponent cycloaddition reactions, the sf-CuS mf exhibited excellent catalytic activity compared with some other nanoparticles with surfactants. This sf-CuS mf catalyzed the one-pot synthesis of 1,2,3-triazole and β-hydroxy-1,2,3-triazole effectively from a variety of benzyl bromide derivatives epoxides respectively. Both these reactions proceeded in the presen...
Source: Journal of Organometallic Chemistry - Category: Chemistry Source Type: research