Issue 29, 2021, Issue in Progress

Synthesis of highly crystalline LaFeO3 nanospheres for phenoxazinone synthase mimicking activity

Abstract

LaFeO3 nanospheres with an orthorhombic perovskite structure were synthesized by a sol–gel autocombustion method in the presence of different citric acid ratios (x = 2, 4, 8, and 16) and utilized for the photocatalytic conversion of o-aminophenol (OAP) to 2-aminophenoxazine-3-one (APX) for the first time. OAP is one of the most toxic phenolic derivatives used as a starting material in many industries; however, the dimerization product APX has diverse therapeutic properties. Photocatalytic conversion was carried out in ethanol/water and acetonitrile/water mixtures in the absence and presence of molecular oxygen at ambient temperature via the oxidative coupling reaction that mimics phenoxazinone synthase-like activity. The LaFeO3 samples showed a superior photocatalytic activity of OAP to APX with rate constants of 0.43 and 0.92 min−1 in the absence and presence of molecular oxygen, respectively. Thus, the LaFeO3 nanozymes could be used as promising candidates in industrial water treatment and phenoxazinone synthase-like activity.

Graphical abstract: Synthesis of highly crystalline LaFeO3 nanospheres for phenoxazinone synthase mimicking activity

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
23 Mar 2021
Accepted
28 Apr 2021
First published
17 May 2021
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2021,11, 17746-17754

Synthesis of highly crystalline LaFeO3 nanospheres for phenoxazinone synthase mimicking activity

M. Khairy, A. H. Mahmoud and K. M. S. Khalil, RSC Adv., 2021, 11, 17746 DOI: 10.1039/D1RA02295D

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