Synthesis, structure and photocatalytic properties of two hybrid compounds prepared by N-methyl-4,4′-bipyridinium chloride

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Wang, Fu-Rong | Wang, Chao-Hai | Wu, Ben-Lai | Yan, Zhen-Ning | Niu, Yun-Yin^{; *} | Hou, Hong-Wei

Affiliations: College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Henan, P. R. China

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Yun-Yin Niu, College of Chemical and Molecular Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Henan 450052, PR China. E-mail: [email protected].

Abstract: Cationic ligand N-methyl-4,4’-bipyridine (MQ) (Scheme 1) reacted respectively with metal halides and pseudohalides to form two organic-inorganic hybrid materials: [MQ][CuI2] (1), [Cu(MQ)(SCN)2] (2), which were characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses, infrared spectra (IR), elemental analyses, powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), and thermogravimetric (TG) analyses. The anion structure of compound 1 is binuclear and 2 is two-dimensional. Compounds 1- 2 show the better characteristic of degradating methylene blue (MB) in water under 500 W Xe vapor lamp irradiation.

Keywords: N-methyl-4,4’-bipyridine, Organic and inorganic hybrid polymers, Photocatalysis

DOI: 10.3233/MGC-180262

Journal: Main Group Chemistry, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 211-218, 2018