Selective oxidation of sulfides on Pt/BiVO4 photocatalyst under visible light irradiation using water as the oxygen source and dioxygen as the electron acceptor

Abstract Photocatalytic selective oxidation represents an environment-friendly strategy for chemical transformation. Herein, we report the oxidation of sulfides into sulfoxides with high selectivity (up to 99%) on Pt/BiVO 4 photocatalyst in water under visible light illumination. The system exhibited excellent performance for the oxidation of sulfides in water compared with organic solvents. Isotopic oxygen (H 2 18 O) experiments clearly revealed that the oxygen atoms in the sulfoxide were mainly from water. Electron paramagnetic resonance demonstrated that the reactive oxygen species were the peroxy species, which were generated from water oxidation on BiVO 4 via the two-electron pathway. Dioxygen was reduced to water through proton-coupled electron transfer.

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