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studies by depositing various metal nanostructures on differ-
ent types of fabrics. The amounts of the leached Pd were
measured with ICP-AES to be 1.0–1.5% after the reaction
mixture containing the 34-nm-sized Pd NPs was kept at 858C
for 15 min. The leached Pd was found to show no catalytic
activity under our reaction conditions.
The TOF values of the vaiously sized Pd NPs at room
temperature were 0.16 sÀ1, which is 30 times that of the Pd/C
(Figure 4c and Table S6 in the Supporting Information).
When bromobenzene, which is less reactive than iodobenzene
Pd NPs is ascribed to a rapid-growth process. The porous Pd
NPs display high catalytic activities toward the Suzuki
coupling reaction at both raised and room temperatures.
The TOF values of the porous Pd NPs are around 30 times
that of the commercial Pd/C for iodobenzene, and 6 times for
bromobenzene. The Pd NPs also exhibit good substrate
selectivity. The high catalytic activities of the porous Pd NPs is
attributed to their large surface area and high concentration
of coordinatively unsaturated surface atoms. Our results
demonstrate that porous metal NPs could provide an
excellent catalytic platform for organic reactions.
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because of the larger C Br bond energy, is used, the TOF
values of the 34-nm-sized Pd NP sample were 0.24 sÀ1 at 858C
and 39.3 hÀ1 at room temperature. Both of these values are
around 6 times those of the Pd/C (Table S7 in the Supporting
Information). So far, the Suzuki coupling reactions at room
temperature have been reported only with Pd complexes as
the catalysts.[29,30] There have been no reports with Pd
nanostructures as the catalysts at room temperature.
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Keywords: C C coupling · crystal growth ·
mesoporous materials · nanoparticles · palladium
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To help in understanding the higher catalytic activities of
the porous Pd NPs than that of the Pd/C, we measured the
cyclic voltammetry (CV) curves for O-atom sorption on three
Pd NP samples and the Pd/C (Figure S11 in the Supporting
Information). The average electrochemical surface areas
obtained from O atom sorption were (5.1 Æ 0.1), (5.7 Æ 0.4),
(5.6 Æ 0.6), and (13.3 Æ 0.7) ꢀ 104 cm2 gÀ1 for the 34-nm-, 28-
nm-, 18-nm-sized Pd NP samples, and the Pd/C, respectively
(Table S8 in the Supporting Information). The average
electrochemical surface areas of the three differently sized
Pd NP samples are very similar, indicating that the differently
sized Pd NPs have approximately the same specific surface
area. Although the electrochemical surface area of the Pd/C is
larger than those of the porous Pd NC samples, the Pd NP
samples exhibit higher TOF values. This behavior might be
caused by the different adsorption abilities of the species
involved in the catalytic reaction and electrochemical mea-
surement.
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nm-sized Pd NPs for the reactions between the respective
position isomers of bromoanisole and tolylboronic acid. A
total of nine reactions were performed. At 858C, all of the
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