Visible-Light-Induced Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols over Surface Oxygen Vacancies-Enriched Nb2O5

Oxidation of alcohols to the corresponding carbonyl compounds plays a very important role in fundamental research and industrial applications of organic chemistry. In this paper, a green and efficient method for alcohol oxidation to carbonyl compounds was reported over a surface oxygen vacancies-enriched Nb2O5 as the photocatalyst. The catalytic system demonstrates high activity with wide substrate scope and diverse functional group compatibility under mild reaction conditions and visible-light irradiation. In addition, the catalyst has good catalytic stability, which can be recycled for several times with maintaining the catalytic activity unchanged.

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A green and efficient method for alcohol oxidation to carbonyl compounds was reported using surface oxygen vacancies-enriched Nb2O5 as the photocatalyst. The catalytic system exhibited high activity with a wide substrate scope and diverse functional group compatibility under mild reaction conditions and visible-light irradiation. Additionally, the catalyst demonstrated good catalytic stability, allowing for multiple recycles without loss of catalytic activity.