Fe3O4@Hydrotalcite-NH2-CoII NPs: A novel and extremely effective heterogeneous magnetic nanocatalyst for synthesis of the 1-substituted 1H-1, 2, 3, 4-tetrazoles

Abstract

In this study, we present a versatile and easy procedure for modifying a ferrite nanoparticles so step by step. A new nanocatalyst was prepared via CoII immobilized onto an aminated ferrite nanoparticles (Fe3O4@HT@AEPH2-CoII). The catalyst was fully characterized by FT-IR, EDX, FE-SEM, TGA, XRD, and VSM analyses. In the preparation of 1-substituted-1-H-tetrazole, the corresponding nanocatalyst shown great catalytic activity. The reaction contains expeditious reusable catalyst (Fe3O4@AEPH2-CoII) that promotes condensation between sodium azide, triethyl ortho-formate, and diversity of heterocyclic/aromatic amines. Also, an environmentally toxic solvent was eliminated. A significant improvement in the synthetic efficacy (95%, yield) was obtained by this new sustainable and eco-friendly protocol as well as high purity. The current procedure as a green protocol offers benefits including a simple operational procedure, an excellent yield of products, mild reaction conditions, minimum chemical wastes, short reaction time, and easy catalyst synthesis. Without any significant reduction in the catalytic performance, up to four recyclability cycles of the catalyst were obtained. The optimization results suggest that the best condition in the preparation of tetrazole derivatives is 0.005 g of the Fe3O4@HT@AEPH2- CoII catalyst where H2O is the solvent at 90 ◦C. The proposed protocol could be applied on a wider scope of the substrate (i.e., electron-deficient and electron-rich).