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Copper cobaltate loaded on hollow carbon spheres: enhanced catalytic performance for transfer hydrogenation of acetophenone derivatives

  • Carbon Letters
  • Abbr : Carbon Lett.
  • 2025, 35(5), pp.2253~2267
  • DOI : 10.1007/s42823-025-00920-8
  • Publisher : Korean Carbon Society
  • Research Area : Natural Science > Natural Science General > Other Natural Sciences General
  • Received : February 17, 2025
  • Accepted : May 4, 2025
  • Published : December 11, 2025

Hariprasad Boopathi Shagunthala 1 Likhith Jagadeesh 1 Aravind Senthilkumar 1 Varma Sreenidhi M 1 Prakash Kasirajan 2 Ganesh Babu Sundaram 1

1Nano-Catalysis Research Lab, Department of Chemistry, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology
2Department of Chemistry, PSR Engineering College

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ABSTRACT

The combination of copper and cobalt in the mixed metal oxides phase attracted considerable interest owing to their distinct characteristics and wide-ranging applications across various domains. In this study, we adopt a facile co-precipitation approach to prepare the hollow carbon spheres (HCSs) embedded with CuCo2O4 nanoparticles to enhance the catalytic activity. HCSs are prepared using a hydrothermal template method followed by the removal of the silica template. The resulting CuCo2O4 and HCSs are characterized by using X-ray diffraction, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy, and Thermo-Gravimetric Analysis to ensure structural integrity and composition. Then, the CuCo2O4 nanoparticle is doped on the porous structure of HCSs using a surface loading method and used as a catalyst for the transfer hydrogenation of acetophenone. The scope is extended using various substrates without a hydrogen source. This nano-catalytic system shows better yields in mild reaction conditions. There was no leaching of the material into the reaction system even after five cycles, thus confirmed by ICP-MS.

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