This paper presents
guanidine-functionalized Fe
3
O
4
magnetic nanoparticle-supported
palladium (II) (Fe
3
O
4
@Guanidine-Pd) as an effective
catalyst for Suzuki–Miyaura
cross-coupling of aryl halides using phenylboronic acids and also
for selective reduction of nitroarenes to their corresponding amines.
Fe
3
O
4
@Guanidine-Pd synthesized is well characterized
using FT-IR spectroscopy, XRD, SEM, TEM, EDX, thermal gravimetric
analysis, XPS, inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy,
and vibrating sample magnetometry analysis. The prepared Fe
3
O
4
@Guanidine-Pd showed effective catalytic performance
in the Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reactions by converting aryl
halides to their corresponding biaryl derivatives in an aqueous environment
in a shorter reaction time and with a meagerly small amount of catalyst
(0.22 mol %). Also, the prepared Fe
3
O
4
@Guanidine-Pd
effectively reduced nitroarenes to their corresponding amino derivatives
in aqueous media at room temperature with a high turnover number and
turnover frequency with the least amount of catalyst (0.13 mol %).
The most prominent feature of Fe
3
O
4
@Guanidine-Pd
as a catalyst is the ease of separation of the catalyst from the reaction
mixture after the reaction with the help of an external magnet with
good recovery yield and also reuse of the recovered catalyst for a
few cycles without significant loss in its catalytic activity.