Green synthesis of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium nanoparticles reduced and stabilized by sodium rhodizonate and their catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol and methyl orange (original) (raw)

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a Department of Chemistry, University of Texas, El Paso, 500 West University Avenue, El Paso, USA
E-mail: jcnoveron@utep.edu

b CURRL, New Mexico State University, 945 College Drive, Las Cruces, USA

Abstract

Sodium rhodizonate was used as a bifunctional reducing as well as stabilizing agent for the single step synthesis of gold (Au), silver (Ag), platinum (Pt), and palladium (Pd) nanoparticles (NPs) in water. Transmission electron microscopy analysis revealed that Pt, Au, Ag, and PdNPs have average core diameters of about 2, 8, 26, and 39 nm, respectively. The ability of these nanoparticles towards the catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) with sodium borohydride (NaBH4) and the dual-catalytic oxidation of formic acid followed by the reduction of methyl orange (MO) was studied. The apparent rate constants (_k_app) of the catalytic reduction of 4-NP in the presence of Ag, Au, Pt, and PdNPs were calculated to be 2.1482, 1.1167, 1.088 × 10−1, and 1.65 × 10−2 min−1, respectively. However, for the dual-catalytic oxidation of formic acid followed by the reduction of MO, the _k_app values were calculated to be 4.145, 1.25 × 10−2, 6.7 × 10−3, and 9.0 × 10−5 for the Pt, Pd, Au, and AgNPs, respectively.

Graphical abstract: Green synthesis of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium nanoparticles reduced and stabilized by sodium rhodizonate and their catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol and methyl orange

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https://doi.org/10.1039/C8NJ01223G

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Submitted

12 Mar 2018

Accepted

16 Mar 2018

First published

21 Mar 2018

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New J. Chem., 2018,42, 6472-6478

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