Affiliations: [a] Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, U.P., India
| [b] Department of Chemistry, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab, India
| [c] Defence material Stores and Research & Development Establishment (DMSRDE), Kanpur, India
| [d] Nanoionics and Energy Storage Laboratory (NanoESL), Department of Physics and Material Science, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, U.P., India
| [e] Department of Chemistry, Mokpo National University, Muan-gun, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea
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Corresponding author: Rajesh Kumar Yadav, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, U.P. 273010, India. E-mail: rajeshkr_yadav2003@yahoo.co.in and Tae Wu Kim, Department of Chemistry, Mokpo National University, Muan-gun, Jeollanam-do, 58554, Republic of Korea.
Abstract: The conversion of sun light energy into sustainble greener chemicals are a major obstacle due to the use of expensive and toxic materials. Sun light induced trifluoromethylation emerges as a highly efficient procedure to insert trifluoromethyl groups into the organic compounds. Yet, the expensive and toxic properties of the metal-based photocatalysts creates a major obstacle for the insertion of trifluoromethyl groups. Metal free activated carbon cloth (ACC) emerged as a highly efficient pillar in the area of material science. In this work, we have successfully synthesized self-assembled metal free fast green with activated carbon cloth (FG@ACC) photocatalyst for photocatalytic trifluoromethylation and reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) cofactor regeneration (85.89 %, 2 h) under sun light. The sun light induced organic transformation promotes the use of low-cost CF3SO2Na as the CF3 radical source to produce highly selective products with 97% yield.
Keywords: FG@ACC photocatalyst, activated carbon cloth, sp3C-CF3 bond generation, NADH regeneration, sun light
