| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In the presence of a palladium-loaded TiO2 photocatalyst, the cleavage of benzyl phenyl ether in low-molecular-weight alcohol solvents under de-aerated conditions afforded toluene and phenol simultaneously in a 1:1 molar ratio. This is the first report for the photocatalytic cleavage of C-O bond. The choice of solvent also strongly affected the reaction outcome; in particular, when the reaction was carried out in 2-propanol containing 20 vol% water, no products other than toluene and phenol were obtained. Our results indicate that the utility of H-Pd formed photocatalytically is not limited to hydrogenation reactions and that the protocol described herein constitutes a new strategy for application of the photocatalytic reduction of TiO2. These results were summarized in a paper and selected on the cover of Chemical Communications.
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