Mesoporous nitrogen doped nano titania—a green photocatalyst for the effective reductive cleavage of azoxybenzenes to amines or 2-phenyl indazoles in methanol

K Selvam, S Balachandran, R Velmurugan…

Index: Selvam; Balachandran; Velmurugan; Swaminathan Applied Catalysis A: General, 2012 , vol. 413-414, p. 213 - 222

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Abstract

A new nitrogen precursor, hydrazine hydrate was used in the synthesis of nano-sized, N- doped TiO2 photocatalyst by a simple wet impregnation method. This photocatalyst was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET), High resolution transmission electron microscope (HR-TEM), UV–vis diffuses reflectance spectra (DRS), photoluminescence (PL) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). XRD patterns show ...