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E d i t i o n o f E u r o S c i C o n C o n f e r e n c e o n
Chemistry
F e b r u a r y 1 9 - 2 0 , 2 0 1 9
P r a g u e , C z e c h R e p u b l i c
Chemistry 2019
S
olar energy has been proposed as the most attractive alternative energy source for the development of clean and renewable
energy. Heterogeneous photo catalysis offers the capability to directly harvest, convert, and store solar energy in the form
of sustainable organic fuels and platform chemicals. In such context, semiconductor photo catalysis has recently emerged as a
promising technology for the generation of clean energy and for the application of solar energy in catalysis. Recently g-C
3
N
4
is
a polymer n-type semiconductor possessing unique electronic, optical, and physiochemical properties, which underpin its use
in electronics, catalysis, and energy production/storage. Carbon nitride has attracted the attention of researchers because of
its unique and interesting physicochemical properties viz., efficiency of operation under visible light, semiconductor properties
(band gap of ~2.7 eV), high stability, nontoxicity, metal free organo catalyst, environmentally benign photo catalysts and simple
fabrication from cheap raw materials without any additive. Recently, Prof Yoel Sasson; our research group demonstrated
g-C
3
N
4
based photo catalysis with enormous possibilities. Few of them are; we describe for the first time a pressure free, mild
photochemical protocol for selective reduction of olefin and nitro compounds using a non-hazardous, abundant, and eco-friendly
H
2
O–Mg pair as a H
2
donor in the presence of a Pd-g-C
3
N
4
photo catalyst at RT. The new reaction system is a more expedient and
greener protocol compared to earlier studies. In another approach, a novel heterogeneous photoactive catalyst is developed by
incorporating ruthenium over a new photoactive g-C
3
N
4
support for efficient photocatalytic transfer hydrogenation with significant
features of the photoactive catalyst Ru-g-C
3
N
4
are viz., it is easy to handle in visible light (LED lamp), does not require an external
base, solvent free, non-toxic, environmentally friendly and proceeds under very mild reaction conditions. In my present postdoc
(RCPTM), we are exploring the single atom based g-C
3
N
4
heterogeneous catalysis.
priti.sharma@mail.huji.ac.ilg-C3N4 based photo-catalysis for sustainable
future energy conservation in chemical
transformations under visible light
Priti Sharma, Zboril Radak and Manoj B Gawande
RCPTM-Palacky University, Czech Republic
Figure 1: Pd-g-C3N4 photo catalyst for Hydrogen generation
J Org Inorg Chem 2019, Volume: 5
DOI: 10.21767/2472-1123-C1-021