New sustainable and robust catalytic supports for palladium nanoparticles generated from chitosan/cellulose film and corn stem biochar

Abstract

The production of sustainable catalytic supports for palladium nanoparticles is always desired, even more so through the recovery of biomass residues. In this sense, two different solids were investigated — chitosan/cellulose film and corn stem biochar — as catalytic supports of palladium nanoparticles. The solids were carefully characterized and tested in the Suzuki-Miyaura reaction, a typical cross-coupling reaction. The developed catalytic systems proved to be efficient and sustainable, promoted the formation of target products very well, and demanded green reactants under environmentally appropriate conditions. With the results shown in the manuscript, it is expected to contribute to the valorization of biomass and agro-industrial residues in the development of new catalysts for the chemical industry. Graphical abstract Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11356-022-22616-6.

Palladium Supported on Bioinspired Materials as Catalysts for C–C Coupling Reactions

“…In 2022, Rosa et al described the investigation of chitosan/cellulose thin films as a support for palladium nanoparticles [129]. In detail, Pd nanoparticles (produced by the treatment of a PdCl 2 solution in isopropyl alcohol with NaBH 4 as reducing agent) and microgranular cellulose were added to a chitosan solution in 1 M acetic acid and the resulting mixture was then stirred at room temperature up to complete homogenization; finally, the solution was dropped on glass plates to give the final thin films (named Pd/CCF by the authors) after solvent evaporation.…”