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Fibrous silica nanospheres offers alternative opportunities for organic synthesis

Heterogeneous catalysis is  an essential tool for organic synthesis and there are many reasons for that: Catalyst recovery is an easy and inexpensive process; they have high thermal and hydrothermal stability; and allow for easy phase separation. In a standard preparation process, metal catalysts from solution are deposited on porous supports. In a process like this, supports with higher accessible internal surface area, porosity, and high thermal and mechanical stability are better able to meet  the challenges in organic synthesis.

In this respect, KCC-1 silica nanoparticles are excellent candidates to probe new or improve existing catalytic processes. Indeed, if you look on the TEM images of KCC-1 particles (Fig 1) [1], you observe very unusual fibrous shaped morphology, tempting for organic chemists to examine their catalysts on this support.

Figure 1: Transition Electron Microscopy images of KCC-1

There is plenty of literature where KCC-1 silica nanoparticles are successfully applied in various organic transformations like C-C bond forming reactions [2], hydrogenation [3-4], isomerization [5] and many others. For more information, please review our Strem Chemiker dedicated to the KCC-1 silica nanoparticles.

References:

1.       Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 9652.
2.       Green Chem., 2016, 18, 5890.
3.       Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, 2011, 50, 2747.
4.       RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 54236.
5.       Chem. Eng. J., 2017, 314, 650.

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