Zhen-Hong He,Yuan-Yuan Wei,Na Li,Yong-Chang Sun,Shao-Yan Yang,Kuan Wang,Weitao Wang,Xiaoxue Ma,Zhao-Tie Liu
Chemical utilization of CO2 is one of the fundamental strategies to synthesize value-added chemicals and reduce the CO2 emission. N-formyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline derivatives (FTHIQs) are important chemicals for the synthesis of medical intermediates and alkaloids. N-formylation of isoquinoline derivatives (IQs) with CO2 is an ideal protocol to synthesize the FTHIQs and utilize the CO2 source. In the present work, we prepared a heterogeneous Ru/ZIF-8 catalyst with a Ru loading of 2 wt% by a simple impregnation method and assessed its performances in the N-formylation of IQs and CO2 with H2. The Ru/ZIF-8 catalyst offered high IQ conversion of 98% and FTHIQ selectivity of 93% in the reaction under relatively mild conditions (150 °C, 2 MPa CO2, and 6 MPa H2). The catalyst possessed good universality and reusability, showing a potential in wide application of N-formylation of highly unsaturated nitrogen-containing isoquinolines.
Xin Cui,Jiachen Zhang,Yitong Liu,Wen Shao,Yawen Tang,Hanjun Sun
Graphical A Ru-ZIF-8 nanozyme with both esterase like and peroxidase like activities were prepared for acetylcholine (ACh) detection. On the basis of the Ru-ZIF-8 nanozyme, a portable nanozyme strip was developed as a novel biosensor for detecting ACh, which was conducive to promoting the development of multiple enzyme cascade assays. In the present study, the incorporation of Ru into the framework of ZIF-8 resulted in that a Ru-ZIF-8 nanozyme with both esterase-like activity and peroxidase-like activity. Owing to the dual nanozymatic activities of Ru-ZIF-8 nanozyme, the acetylcholine (ACh) detection process utilized only one natural enzyme (choline oxidase), which greatly simplified the detection procedure. In the detection process, nanozyme Ru-ZIF-8 showed esterase-like activity to catalyze the hydrolysis of ACh to choline. Then the generated choline was oxidized by choline oxidase to generate H 2 O 2 . Finally, Ru-ZIF-8 with peroxidase-like activity was used to catalyze H 2 O 2 to oxidize 2,2′-azino-bis (3-ethylbenzothiazo-line-6-sulfonic acid) ammonium salt with a color change. As a result, the linear range for ACh was from 0.01 μM-22 μM with the detection limit (DL) of 5.5 nM. In addition, Ru-ZIF-8 was utilized to fabricate a portable detection test strip. Our work provided a simple, portable, low-cost, highly sensitive and selective assay for the detection of ACh, which paved the way for the development of multi enzyme cascade assays.