Photocatalytic hydrogenolysis of epoxides using alcohols as reducing agents on TiO2 loaded with Pt nanoparticles

Hiroaki Hirakawa; Yasuhiro Shiraishi; Hirokatsu Sakamoto; Satoshi Ichikawa; Shunsuke Tanaka; Takayuki Hirai

doi:10.1039/C4CC09307K

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Photocatalytic hydrogenolysis of epoxides using alcohols as reducing agents on TiO₂ loaded with Pt nanoparticles†

Hiroaki Hirakawa,^a Yasuhiro Shiraishi,*^ab Hirokatsu Sakamoto,^a Satoshi Ichikawa,^c Shunsuke Tanaka^d and Takayuki Hirai^a

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^a Research Center for Solar Energy Chemistry, and Division of Chemical Engineering, Osaka University, Toyonaka 560-8531, Japan
E-mail: shiraish@cheng.es.osaka-u.ac.jp

^b PRESTO, JST, Saitama 332-0012, Japan

^c Institute for NanoScience Design, Osaka University, Toyonaka 560-8531, Japan

^d Department of Chemical, Energy and Environmental Engineering, Kansai University, Suita 564-8680, Japan

Abstract

Photoexcitation (λ > 300 nm) of TiO₂ loaded with Pt particles promotes selective hydrogenolysis of epoxides using alcohols as reducing agents.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC09307K
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 21 Nov 2014
Accepted: 18 Dec 2014
First published: 18 Dec 2014

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Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 2294-2297

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Photocatalytic hydrogenolysis of epoxides using alcohols as reducing agents on TiO₂ loaded with Pt nanoparticles

H. Hirakawa, Y. Shiraishi, H. Sakamoto, S. Ichikawa, S. Tanaka and T. Hirai, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 2294 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC09307K

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