Cytosine Palladium Complex Supported on Ordered Mesoporous Silica as Highly Efficient and Reusable Nanocatalyst for One-Pot Oxidative Esterification of Aldehydes

The synthesis of esters is one the most fundamental and significant subjects in organic chemistry chemical industry because they are used high-value products such as cosmetics, biofuel, pharmaceuticals, surfactants, food ingredients. In this study, an efficient, economic, sustainable, green protocol for oxidative esterification reaction has been developed. A one-pot direct transformation aliphatic, aromatic, unsaturated aldehydes into presence oxygen carried out over mesoporous organosilica-supported palladium nanocatalyst (Pd-Cyt@SBA-15) under ambient conditions. Pd-Cyt@SBA-15 efficiently catalyzed selectively large-scale conversion high yields large turnover numbers (TON = 98,000). demonstrated excellent reusability stability could be recycled up to ten times without loss reactivity. ICP-AES analysis showed that no leaching active species occurred during recycling process heterogeneous nanocatalyst.