Affiliations: [a] Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
| [b] Department of Chemistry, Mokpo University, Muan-gun, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea
| [c] Department of Chemistry, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab, India
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Corresponding authors. Rajesh K. Yadav, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur-273010, UP, India. Tel.: +91 8765783846; E-mail: rajeshkr_yadav2003@yahoo.co.in and Tae Wu Kim, Department of Chemistry, Mokpo University, Muan-gun, Jeollanam-do, 58554, Republic of Korea. Tel.: +82 61 450 2338; E-mail: twkim@mokpo.ac.kr.
Abstract: Graphene is one of the amazing present encroachments in current research area of science and one of the utmost fascinating materials for relevance in cutting-edge research. Herein, we designed lemon-derived heteroatoms-doped graphene quantum dots (S, N-GQDs) based photocatalyst for the first time. For the integrating reactions of amines in aerobic conditions under solar light by S, N-GQDs photocatalyst exhibit utmost higher photocatalytic activity than simple oxygen-doped graphene quantum dots (O-GQDs) due to slow recombination charges. The mechanisms accountable for the drastically increased photocatalytic activity of S, N-GQDs in solar light responsive integrating reactions of amines in aerobic conditions into the corresponding derivative of imines are also completely scrutinized.
