A graphene based composite with copper nanoparticles (Cu-G) has been synthesized and used as catalyst for N-arylation and O-arylation. The structure and composition of the nanocomposite have been characterized by TEM, AFM, Raman and XPS. The catalytic activity of the Cu-G has been tested for the N-arylation of N-H heterocycles using arylboronic acids and the O-arylation of phenols using aryl halides.The catalytic N-arylation produces N-aryl heterocyles and the catalytic O-arylation produces diaryl ethers, under mild reaction conditions with excellent yields and selectivities. The developed catalyst is air-stable, inexpensive, easy to prepare, easy to recover by simple filtration and can be reused without appreciable loss of activity.

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A new mesoporous Cu-MPTA-1 nanocatalyst has been synthesized via a simple and facile in situ radical polymerization of triallylamine in the presence of an organic-organic self-assembly of anionic surfactant SDS, followed by grafting of Cu(II) at room temperature under an inert atmosphere. This nanomaterial has been characterized by elemental analysis, powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), N 2 adsorption-desorption studies, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and EPR spectroscopy. Cu-MPTA-1 acts as an efficient heterogeneous nanocatalyst exhibiting a high catalytic activity for N-arylation and S-arylation reactions using water as a green solvent and also exhibits an excellent catalytic activity for the one-pot synthesis of propargylamines via a three component coupling of an alkyne, an amine and an aldehyde at room temperature.Moreover, the catalyst is easily recoverable and can be reused six times without an appreciable loss of catalytic activity in the three component coupling reaction. The highly dispersed Cu(II) sites in the Cu-grafted mesoporous polymer could be responsible for the observed high activities of the Cu-MPTA-1 catalyst in the coupling reactions.No evidence of leached Cu from the catalyst during the course of the reaction has been observed, suggesting true heterogeneity in the catalytic process.