Research Projects

Over the past few decades, there has been a significant focus on improving graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4)-based research. g-C3N4 is a wide-bandgap semiconductor with high thermal and chemical stability, making it suitable for photocatalysis. Doping g-C3N4 with various metals can modify its texture and electronic structure, enhancing its performance. Mesoporous g-C3N4 (mpg-C3N4) offers unique physicochemical properties and has applications in photocatalysis, adsorption, and sensing. Transition metals like Fe, Co, Ni, Mn, and Cu can be successfully included into a g-C3N4 matrix, enhancing photophysical activities and engaging in dual catalysis. Despite its heterogeneous nature, g-C3N4 can be recycled multiple times. The researchers aim to explore g-C3N4's photocatalytic application in organophosphorus chemistry, such as difunctionalization of alkenes and alkynes and cyclization to prepare heterocyclic compounds. Organophosphorus compounds have significant applications in organic synthesis, materials, ligand chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and agrochemicals due to their unique bioactivities. The researchers aim to employ novel transition metal doped mg-C3N4 as a photocatalyst for phosphinylation of alkenes, a reaction not well studied in transition metal catalysis. This research will explore the synthesis of biologically and industrially relevant heterocycles, such as bezophosphole oxides/sulphides.