Photocatalytic Reduction of Organic Compounds
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Miguel A. Valenzuela
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Elim Albiter
Abstract
Organic synthesis through semiconductor photocatalysis has become an important research area in photochemistry in the last two decades. Significant examples of organic transformations employed for synthetic purposes are oxidation and reduction reactions, isomerization reactions, C-H bond activations and C-C and C-N bond forming reactions. In this review, the use of irradiated semiconductors and different operation conditions in the reduction of organic compounds is surveyed. Here, the photocatalytic reduction of nitroarenes, aldehydes, ketones and miscellaneous compounds will be discussed. This review is concluded with some perspectives of our group on the directions toward which future research may be aimed.
© 2016 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- Preface
- A Brief Survey of the Potential Health Risks of TiO2 Particles and TiO2- Containing Photocatalytic or Non-Photocatalytic Materials
- What Are Titania Photocatalysts?―An Exploratory Correlation of Photocatalytic Activity with Structural and Physical Properties
- Considerations of Particle Size in Aqueous Phase Photocatalysis kinetics with TiO2
- Binary Cationic BDDAC/Anionic DoS Surfactant Systems of Variable Compositions.Mineralization by an Advanced Oxidation Process in Aqueous Dispersions
- The Role of Non-Metal Doping in TiO2 Photocatalysis
- Photocatalysis and Catalytic Properties of Nano-sized N-TiO2 Catalyst Synthesized by Sol-gel Methods
- Effects of Surface Modification on the Photocatalytic Activity of TiO2
- Carbon-modified TiO2 as Photocatalysts
- Photocatalytic Reduction of Organic Compounds
- Photocatalytic Activity for NO Degradation by Construction Materials: Parametric Study andMultivariable Correlations
