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Oxidation and removal of highly toxic sulfides and amines are particularly important for environmental and human security but remain challenging. Here, incorporating an excellent photosensitizer, donor-acceptor-donor (D-A-D)-type 4,4'-(benzo[][1,2,5]thiadiazole-4,7-diyl)dibenzoic (HL), into metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) has been manifested to promote the charge separation, affording four three-dimensional (3D) MOFs (isostructural / with Co/Zn units, and / with Gd/Tb-cluster chains) as photocatalysts in the visible light-driven air-O-mediated catalytic oxidation and removal of hazardous phenylsulfides and benzylamines. Impressively, structure-property correlation illustrated that the transition metal centers assembled in MOFs play an important role in the photocatalytic activity, and we can conclude that can be a robust heterogeneous catalyst possessing good light adsorption and fast charge separation in oxidation removal reactions of both benzylamines and phenylsulfides under visible light irradiation and room temperature with excellent activity/selectivity, stability, and reusability.
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Front Chem
August 2025
Faculty of Educational Sciences, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman, Jordan.
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State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China.
Introduction: Manganese-oxidizing bacteria (MOB) play a critical role in converting soluble Mn(II) to insoluble Mn(III/IV) oxides, which have been widely applied for environmental remediation, particularly in heavy metal pollution control. Therefore, the discovery of novel MOB strains is of great significance for advancing pollution mitigation and ecosystem restoration.
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September 2025
Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Wollo University, PO Box, 1145 Dessie, Ethiopia.
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September 2025
College of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Conservation and Utilization for Dabie Mountain Special Bio-Resources, West Anhui University, Lu'an, Anhui 237012, P. R. China.
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Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Mahayogi Gorakhnath University, Gorakhpur, UP, India.
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