Group-VI-Chalcogenide-Based Nanomaterials in Photo/Thermal Organic Transformations

ConspectusWith the growing awareness of need to have greener, economical, and sustainable alternatives in synthetic chemistry, scientific community has come up with strategies that are based on materials general nanomaterials particular. Nanomaterials can be tuned obtain desired properties. These methods include modification surface by functionalization, controlling defects at edge basal plane, doping metals, other nanomaterials, or heteroatoms. At lower dimensions, they bear an enhanced surface-to-volume ratio. act as potential sites for catalysis, hence, immense ability mediate organic transformations. Although these not yet taken over reported metal/ligand-based catalysts completely, one agree fact nanoscience nanotechnology a charisma their own. Over years, acquired importance industries well, chiefly because heterogeneous nature allows reuse them subsequent runs. In this Account, we made effort introduce readers various forms transition metal chalcogenides (TMCs) been used photo thermal catalysis well our contributions regard. To date, accounts reviews centered around focused energy related applications electrocatalytic transformations like water-splitting process, hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), oxygen evolution/reduction (OER/ORR) electronics such transistors, solar cells, photodetectors, etc. Also, gained popularity drug delivery systems sensing applications. Very few reports brought about role TMCs catalysis. Herein, laid emphasis use transformations, categorized oxidation–reduction reactions C–C C–heteroatom bond forming reactions, mediated thermally photochemically. It is also possible merge multifaceted TMCs, demonstrated recent report cross dehydrogenative coupling (CDC) synchronized HER. Apart from this, discussed some hydrodesulfurization (HDS) hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) well. Some key challenges persisting field design chiral enantioselective diastereoselective correlation experimental output theoretical studies, extent doping, detailed analysis nutshell, TMC relatively unexplored, highly promising field, overcoming would enhance manifold sectors.