Facile Synthesis of COF-Supported Reduced Pd-Based Catalyst for One-Pot Reductive Amination of Aldehydes

Abstract

Dibenzylamine motifs are an important class of crucial organic compounds and are widely used in fine chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The development of the efficient, economical, and environmentally friendly synthesis of amines using transition metal-based heterogeneous catalysts remains both desirable and challenging. Herein, we prepared the covalent organic framework (COF)-supported heterogeneous reduced COF-supported Pd-based catalyst and used it for the one-pot reductive amination of aldehydes. There are both Pd metallic state and oxidated Pd^σ+ in the catalysts. Furthermore, in the presence of the reduced COF-supported Pd-based catalyst, many aromatic, aliphatic, and heterocyclic aldehydes with various functional groups substituted were converted to their corresponding amines products in good to excellent selectivity (up to 91%) under mild reaction conditions (70 °C, 2 h, NH₃, 20 bar H₂). This work expands the covalent organic frameworks for the material family and its support catalyst, opening up new catalytic applications in the economical, practical, and effective synthesis of secondary amines.

1. Introduction

Dibenzylamine motifs are presented as a class of crucial organic compounds with extensive applications in rubber compounds, constituting attractive intermediates for fine chemical industries, corrosion inhibitors, and drug formulations [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. The development of a highly efficient selective synthesis method has attracted great attention in organic chemistry. In general, conventional methodologies for their production involve either direct base-promoted mono-N-alkylation or alkylative amination [8,9,10]. Although significant research efforts have proceeded, problems such as tedious workup process, poor product yield or selectivity, and large byproduct formation of wasteful salts need to be solved according to the environmental and sustainable issues. Reductive amination of carbonyl compounds using transition-metal catalyst has become a highly versatile and robust method for various transformations in the C–N bond construction due to its obvious advantages, such as mild reaction conditions, wide availability, and inexpensive reagents [4,7,10]. Moreover, the activation of H₂ and the catalytic reduction of unsaturated compounds are fundamentally promising environmentally friendly processes. However, in the reductive amination of benzaldehyde using H₂ and ammonia, for example, the controllable selective process to either 100% benzylamine or 100% dibenzylamine is very challenging. It is generally assumed that the reaction conversion and final product composition mainly rely on the catalyst metal component. In this respect, various transition metal systems, such as Raney Ni, Pd-based, Pt-based, etc., have been applied widely in reductive amination for the synthesis of amines [11,12,13,14,15,16]. Raney Ni was used widely and proved to be very suitable for the reductive amination of benzaldehyde with NH₃. However, due to the low product selectivity, lack of safety, and harsh reaction conditions, its application in the industry was restricted. Recently, more resistant unsupported or supported noble metals showed the high reactivity and selectivity of reductive amination under milder reaction conditions. For example, Qi et al. [3] developed the selective synthesis of secondary amines through direct reductive amination of aldehydes using the unsupported Pt nanowire catalyst under mild reaction conditions (80 °C, 24 h, 2 equivalent NH₃, 1 bar H₂) (Scheme 1a). They found that the dibenzylamine (DBA) selectivity increased from 82.5 to 93.3% and dibenzylimine (DBI) selectivity decreased from 14 to 3.3% when the reaction temperature increased from 40 to 80 °C. Compared with Pt nanorods (80.3%) and nanoparticles (59.2%), the Pt nanowire catalyst exhibited excellent dibenzylamine selectivity (93.3%) in reductive amination using ammonia or ammonium acetate as the substrate. According to their time-conversion results from gas chromatography (GC), they agreed with their proposed mechanism: The reaction intermediate is dibenzylimine, which is stable and can be detected, and the reduction of dibenzylimine is the rate-determining step. Hydrogenation of imines or direct hydrogenolysis of carbinol-amines can produce benzylamine and dibenzylamine as products. However, there is generally an exit competing reaction to form benzyl alcohol via the direct hydrogenation of benzaldehyde. Surprisingly, the Pt nanowire catalyst can be easily recycled and reused up to six times without Pt leaching. Later, Zhang et al. [17] reported nickel-catalyzed reductive amination of aldehydes by hydrosilylation using an in situ-generated catalytic system from inexpensive nickel acetate and tricyclohexylphosphine (Scheme 1b). Under the optimized reaction conditions (1.1 equivalent amine, 1 equivalent aldehyde, 70 °C, 8 h, then 1.5 equivalent tetramethyldisiloxane, 70 °C, 16 h), various amines including aromatic and aliphatic amines were tested with aromatic aldehydes or aliphatic aldehydes. The corresponding secondary amines were obtained in good to excellent conversions and yields. However, secondary amine and ketones were not well-tolerated under similar reductive amination conditions. They mixed Ni(OAc)₂, PCy₃ and Ph₂SiH₂, and found that the mixture turned orange-red after 3.5 h at 100 °C. According to the NMR analysis, they confirmed that the complex [{Ni(PCy₃)}₂(m-SiHPh₂)₂] was formed in situ. Since in the ¹H NMR spectrum, the main compound revealed a signal at −2.04 ppm, which is assigned for Ni(H-Si), and a signal at +45.9 ppm was also observed in the ³¹P NMR spectrum, and this observation matched well with the previous report by Osakada et al. [18]. The first step of the catalytic cycle was confirmed to be the reduction of Ni^II to Ni⁰ species by these spectrometric data. Recently, Lu et al. [6] prepared new worm-like PtMo nanowires through facile co-reduction of Pt and Mo precursors with H₂ (Scheme 1c). The as-prepared nanowires work effectively in the activation of H₂, following which, dibenzylamines can be successfully synthesized from the reductive amination of either benzaldehyde or benzonitriles under mild and green reaction conditions. Due to the high stability of Mo precursors against inferior reductants, Mo was observed with low content. According to the elemental mapping analysis, Pt and Mo are well-distributed throughout the interior and exterior domains. The Pt catalytic activity and stability were enhanced by the incorporation of Mo into Pt. Pt active sites were liberated when H₂ on the surface of Pt sites migrated over to the Mo species. They found that the catalyst was readily recovered, can be easily scaled up and was very active due to its composition and morphological effects in the reaction of imines into amines.

With the increasing problems concerning environmental and sustainable chemistry, many classes of transition metals like Pd, Rh, etc., -based heterogeneous catalysts had been developed and widely used. They showed excellent activities and selectivities for the product amine synthesis. As is well-known, the catalyst supports can control the active metal nanoparticles’ size, distribution, surface electronic properties, which significantly affected the metal-supported catalyst’s intrinsic activity and selectivity [19,20,21,22,23].

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have become one important class of the most promising porous support materials since they were first reported by Cote et al. [24]. They have been extensively studied due to their fascinating features, including low density, high and regular porosity, high stability, tunable pore size, strong covalent bonds, and easy design of functional groups. Recently, COFs were applied to construct core-shell structure composite materials (graphene, carbon nanotubes, Fe₃O₄, and alumina, etc.) via heterogeneously nucleating and growing on the surface of different matrices [25,26,27,28]. The nanosized core’s aggregation can be effectively impeded via the incorporation of COF merits and nanosized components for core-shell structure nanocomposite synthesis. In this case, the surface modification could be more facile. Compared with other kinds of porous materials, COFs can be applied as more suitable scaffolds for fabricating core-shell structured noble nanocomposite, based on the feasibly tuned properties by the in-built covalent bond architecture. Until now, a few transition metals immobilized in COF materials have been applied in different chemical reactions such as Suzuki coupling, Knoevenagel condensation, nitroarenes reduction, and so on [29]. However, COF-based transition metal catalysts have been seldom explored for the preparation of secondary amines. Generally speaking, the catalytic transformation of primary amides to the corresponding secondary imines requires expensive amines, and the primary amines are mostly obtained from the reductive amination reactions of carbonyl compounds with NH₃. So, it would be an ideal, green, and promising choice for the the secondary imines to be obtained through the direct reductive amination of aromatic aldehyde via a one-pot tandem process. Herein, a facile synthesis strategy of a Pd nanoparticles-anchored COF matrix was developed (Scheme 1d). We also evaluated its catalytic activity in the one-pot tandem reductive amination of benzaldehyde to amines. This system requires NH₃ as the nitrogen source and H₂ gas as the source of hydrogen. This process offered not only an atom-economical and environmentally friendly process for synthesizing amines but also minimized the workup and purification steps. What is more, this Pd/COF catalyst is also applicable for more than 20 aromatic, heterocyclic and cyclic aldehydes, and tolerates the presence of various functional groups with ortho-, meta-, and para-position substitutes under mild conditions (70 °C, 2 h, 20 bar of H₂).

2. Results and Discussion 2.1. Characterization of COF Support and Reduced COF-Supported Pd Catalyst

As shown in Figure 1a, for both SJ02 and reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 FTIR spectra (Figure S4), the peaks at 1573 cm⁻¹ (-C=N bond) in the COF support SJ02 and 1569 cm⁻¹ (-C=N bond) in reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 catalyst could be detected, which confirmed the formation of a Schiff base in the COF synthesis and the COF-supported catalyst. The peaks around 1251 and 1573 cm⁻¹ can be assigned to C–N and typical C=C stretching vibration, respectively. Powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) was performed to obtain the insight crystalline structure of the COFs. Figure 1b shows the PXRD analysis of the spherical COFs SJ02 and reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 (Figure S5). It is shown that the signals of reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 show no significant changes in comparison to the COF support SJ02, indicating that the palladium salt introduction does not damage the overall crystallinity and retains the framework integrity of isolated COFs SJ02. Additionally, as shown in the reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 catalyst, the peak at 6.4° is derived from COF support SJ02 originally, and the relatively wide signal at around 26.3° agrees well with the (001) reflection. This phenomenon was ascribed to the π−π stacking between the ordered adjacent layers of the COF sheets [30].

At the same time, as illustrated in Figure 2 (Figures S1,S2,S7, Table S3), reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 exhibits an irregular morphology with an average size of about 100 nm. Furthermore, the elements of reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 were further analyzed by the EDS mapping images. As depicted in Figure 2, other than C, N, and O, the Pd element is observed, suggesting that the Pd species is uniformly incorporated into the COF support SJ02 matrix.

Nitrogen adsorption/desorption isotherms of the SJ02 and reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 are also displayed in Figure 3 (Figure S6, Table S2). Both the COF support and reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 catalyst samples showed a type IV reversible adsorption isotherm curve, indicating the existence of mesopores. The Brunaue–Emmett–Teller surface area of SJ02 and reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 are calculated to be 559.531 and 347.076 m²·g⁻¹, respectively. The V_pore of SJ02 and reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 dropped from 0.322 cm³ g⁻¹ to 0.254 cm³ g⁻¹ when incroporating of Pd in the framework, which could be ascribed to the fact that the Pd nanoparticles filled in the original pores of the COF matix. As shown in Figure 3b, based on the quenched solid density functional theory (QSDFT) model, the pore size distribution of both two samples revealed main peaks in the range of approximately 8 to 60 nm. In comparison with SJ02, the large decrease in the surface area and little change in the pore size distribution for reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04, indicating that the presence of Pd species would not block the cavities of reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 but could enhance the weight significantly. This pore distribution behavior and specific surface area might make COF-supported Pd materials to be tempting options for potential catalysis applications.

As shown in Figure 4, the XPS spectra of the COF support SJ02 and reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 catalyst were presented to further investigate surface structures and chemical states (Figure S3). The binding energies were corrected for specimen charging using C1s as the reference at 284.8 eV in the XPS analysis. It is clear to see the signals of Pd3d, N1s, C1s, and O1s in the reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 catalyst, and the signals of N1s, C1s, and O1s in the SJ02 support. The corresponding high-resolution C 1s spectrum in Figure 4a shows two peaks at 284.8 and 285.1 eV, which matched with sp³-coordinated hybridized carbons and C–N bond. Furthermore, the N1s spectrums of COF support SJ02 and reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 catalyst can be fitted into two peaks, which belonging to sp² hybridized nitrogen in the form of C-N=C and the C-N bond, respectively. C=O peak at 532.4 eV can be observed in the peak-fitted O 1s XPS spectra of COF support SJ02 and reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 catalyst. According to the high-resolution Pd3d XPS spectrum of reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 catalyst, the Pd3d^5/2 was fitted into states at bonding energies of 335.8 eV and 338.4 eV, which can be ascribed to the presence of metal Pd⁰ and Pd²⁺ species, respectively. Moreover, the Pd3d^3/2 was also fitted into states at bonding energies of 341.6 eV and 343.8 eV, and these were ascribed to the presence of metal Pd⁰ and Pd²⁺ species, respectively. As is well known, Pd⁰, like Pd/C, has a specific dissociation power for hydrogenation reaction; thus, the presence of Pd^σ+ could affect catalytic hydrogenolysis activity and further contribute to suppressing the over-hydrogenation reaction.

2.2. Reduced COF-Supported Pd Catalyst Reductive Amination

With the ideal heterogeneous COF supported reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 catalyst in hand, we investigated its catalytic activity for the direct reductive amination of benzaldehyde using NH₃. Generally speaking, H₂ pressure is a key factor, which can influence the reaction selectivity for the reductive reaction. As shown in Table 1 (Figures S9,S10), in this case, when the hydrogen pressure increased from 10 to 30 bar, the yield of dibenzylamine did not change dramatically and remained at about 80%. The reaction temperature had a great effect on the product distribution. When the reaction temperature was varied from 50, 70, 90, to 110 °C under 20 bar of hydrogen pressure, the yield of dibenzylamine increased first to 85.1% and then dropped to 72%. When the reaction was carried out over a long period of time from 2 to 12 h, this was not good for the selectivity of dibenzylamine; the product yield dropped from 83.8 to 72.3%.

With the optimized reaction conditions in hand, we tested its great potential practical applicability for the reductive amination of the aldehyde with various functional substituted groups. As listed in Table 2, many different functional aromatic, heterocyclic, and cyclic aldehydes were well-tolerated under the optimized mild reaction conditions (70 °C, 2 h, 20 bar of H₂), which demonstrated its general applications in the field of reductive amination of aldehydes to target secondary imines (Figures S11–S33). For the para-substituted aromatic aldehydes, when the substituent group changed from methyl, methoxyl, chloro, fluoro to amine, the reductive amination provided the desired product in good to excellent selectivity (3a to 7a). However, the substrates having amide, nitrile, and ethoxyl on the para-position were not well tolerated in this reaction condition (8a, 9a, 10a). Generally speaking, the position of the aromatic substrates in the substituted group influenced its catalytic reactivity and product selectivity. As it shown in Table 2, benzaldehydes with meta-Cl, meta-OMe, and meta-F substituent group had much higher selectivity (11a: 66%; 13a: 75%; 14a: 67%) for corresponding amine than those in the ortho-position (17a: 43%; 18a: 35%; 20a: 53%). This phenomenon could be ascribed to the synergy of electronic nature and steric effects. To our excitement, the biomass platform compounds can be converted to their corresponding amines in excellent activity and good desired product selectivity (21a: 70%; 22a: 65%). The aliphatic substrate aldehydes with either linear aldehydes or branched-chain aldehyde seemed to have substantial difficulty realizing the one-pot reductive amination and gave the desired product 24a in 29% selectivity, 25a in 16% selectivity, 26a in 40% selectivity, and 27a in 19% selectivity, respectively. The cyclic aldehyde 23, instead, can tolerate well and provided the desired amine product in full conversion and 67% selectivity. In conclusion, the heterogeneous COF-supported reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 catalyst showed promising potential results for the one-pot reductive amination of aromatic, aliphatic, and heterocyclic aldehydes with various functional groups substituted, and many corresponding amines products were obtained in good to excellent selectivity under mild reaction conditions (70 °C, 2 h, NH₃, 20 bar H₂).

A possible catalytic reaction pathway for the benzaldehyde to dibenzylamine with NH₃ and H₂ gas has been proposed according to the results from the one-pot reductive amination of benzaldehyde and compared with the previously reported literature. As depicted in Scheme 2, the starting material benzaldehyde was firstly reacted with one molecule of ammonia and dehydrated to form the reactive intermediates benzylimine under the reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 catalyst. During the reaction process, we did not observe the benzylimine product since it is very reactive in the reaction and prone to hydrogenate rapidly to 1c. As was reported in the previous literature [31], H₂ and NH₃ adsorb completely on the same active metal sites and affect the reductive amination process dramatically. Moreover, a variation of the ratio for Pd²⁺ and Pd⁰ species based on the XPS characterization analysis could greatly affect the hydrogenation and amination process. It was no wonder that the Pd⁰ species also facilitated the 1d formation and 1a formation. Since there is a competitive process between 1c and 1d formation, precise controlling of the active sites of Pd²⁺ and Pd⁰ species and its responding reactivity for selective amination process as well as reductive amination to form 1c and reductive hydrogenation to form 1d is very important. In the meantime, the 1c was further reacted with another molecule of benzaldehyde and dehydrated to yield 1b over reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 catalyst. Then, the 1b was further hydrogenated to the desired product 1a using the reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 catalyst, mainly relying on the Pd⁰ species under H₂. All in all, this indicated that a suitable amount of NH₃, H₂, and the precise regulation of Pd²⁺ and Pd⁰ species for the reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 catalyst, were of great significance for the high selectively transformation and efficiency conversion to the desired product, dibenzylimine.

3. Materials and Methods 3.1. Chemicals and Materials The aldehyde starting material and the chemical reagents were used without purification. The solvent EtOH (AR, water ≤0.3%), DMF (Biotechnology grade, ≥99.9%), CH₂Cl₂ (Standard for GC, ≥ 99.7%, 50–150 ppm Isoamylene stabilizer), MeOH (≥99.9% (GC)) used in this work were purchased from Shanghai Aladdin Bio-Chem Technology Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China). and used directly. The 1,3,5 trimethoxybenzene (99%) was bought from the Alfa Aesar Chemical Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China); the Ammonia solution (2.0 mol/L in MeOH) was purchased from the Energy-chemical Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China); Citric acid (AR, ≥ 99.5%), CDCl₃ (99.8% D, stabilized with Ag, containing 0.03% TMS), 1, 4 dioxanes (AR, 99% containing 10 ppm BHT as a stabilizer), tetrahydrofuran (99.5%, with molecular sieves, Water ≤ 50 ppm, stabilized with BHT) and acetate (AR, 99.5%) were obtained from Shanghai Macklin Biochemical Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China). N and N-Dimethylformamide (AR ≥ 99.5%) were purchased from Guangzhou Chemical Reagent Factory (Guangzhou, China). Pd(OAc)₂ (AR, > 98.0%) was bought from TCI (Shanghai) Chemical Industry Development Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China). Sodium borohydride (AR, >98.0%) was purchased from Tianjin Damao Chemical Reagent Factory (Tianjin, China). 3.2. Catalyst Preparation

3.2.1. Synthesis of COF Material

The spherical COF material was synthesized via the previously reported facile hydrothermal method [32]. The COF material was synthesized by reacting 2, 4, 6-Trihydroxy-benzene-1, 3, 5-tricarbaldehyde (200 mg, 0.92 mmol) with 6-(5-aminopyridin-2-yl)pyridin-3-amine (215.2 mg, 1.11 mmol) for 1 h in the presence of anhydrous EtOH (60 mL) at room temperature. The crude reaction products were collected and dispersed into DMF at 153 °C to 160 °C for 4 h. After filtration, the collecting powder was then immersed in anhydrous EtOH at 80 °C for 2 h. Finally, the powder was dried under vacuum conditions at 80 °C for 24 h. The resulting COF material was named SJX. In brief, the 2, 4, 6-Trihydroxy-benzene-1, 3, 5-tricarbaldehyde was served as a monomer, reacting with 6-(5-aminopyridin-2-yl)pyridin-3-amine via Schiff’s base reaction, and then denoted as SJ02.

3.2.2. Synthesis of COF Based Pd Catalyst

Pre-synthesized COF support material SJ02 (165 mg) was put in 10 to 20 mL of dichloromethane, and palladium acetate (20 mg, 0.089 mmol) was added. This reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 24 h. We then recovered the residue by filtration and washed with DCM in a Soxhlet extractor for 24 h. Finally, the sample Pd-SJ04 was dried under vacuum conditions at 80 °C.

3.2.3. Synthesis of the Reduced COF-Supported Pd Catalyst

The Pd ions were subsequently introduced into COFs, and the strong coordination was built between Pd metal ions and nitrogen atoms in the COF matrix. The COF-based Pd catalyst Pd-SJ04 (148 mg) and sodium borohydride (3.97 mg, 1.5 times the molar amount of Pd) were stirred in methanol solution for 24 h. Finally, the reduced COF-supported Pd catalyst Pd-SJ04 was further dried at 90 °C for 12 h under vacuum conditions. The metal Pd particles were stably anchored on COF support after the reduction process by NaBH₄. 3.3. Catalyst Characterization Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns were recorded by an X’ Pert Pro system, using Cu-Kα radiation with a Δ2θ = 0.02° in the 2.5° to 50° 2θ range (X’Pert PRO MPD, PANalytical, Netherlands). X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) was recorded with an AXIS Ultra DLD (Kratos, Britain) and the standard C 1s peak was used as a reference for correcting the shifts. Field-emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) images were acquired on a JEOL JSM-6700 electron microscope (JEOL, Japan). Fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) was mainly used for group structure analysis of materials, qualitative and quantitative analysis of materials, especially qualitative analysis of the functional group characteristic absorption frequency. IR spectra were recorded on a Bruker Tensor 27 spectrometer with dried KBr (Berlin, Germany). The N₂ adsorption-desorption isotherms were measured with a Tristar 3010 isothermal nitrogen sorption analyzer (Micromeritics, Florida, USA) at 77 K after the samples were degassed in a vacuum at 120 °C for 10 h. 3.4. General Procedure for the Catalytic Reductive Amination Reaction The reductive amination of aldehydes was carried out in a stainless-steel autoclave reactor (Anhui Kemi Machinery Technology Co., LTD, China) with six channels. In a standard run for the catalytic activity test of this reduced COF-supported Pd catalyst Pd-SJ04, aldehyde substance (0.5 mmol), reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 catalyst (5 mg), and 5 mL 2.0 mol/L ethanol solution of ammonia were added into the reactor with a Teflon coated stir bar. The reactor was sealed and then purged three times with hydrogen, followed by filling with H₂ to 1–3 MPa and heating to the target temperature of 50 to 110 °C and stirred vigorously for a settled time (2 to 12 h). We cooled down the reaction autoclave to room temperature and separated the catalyst by a 0.22-μm filtering membrane. The mixture was analyzed by ¹H NMR spectra spectroscopy or GC. The yield of the reaction was studied by the internal standard method (1, 3, 5 trimethoxybenzene as an internal standard). 4. Conclusions In summary, we have designed and successfully synthesized the COF-supported material and the COF-supported heterogeneous reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 catalyst. The latter showed high reactivity and selectivity of amines for the facile and efficient one-pot reductive amination from aldehydes for the first time. The Pd nanoparticles were anchored on the COF supports successfully. It was found that both the metallic state of Pd and oxidated Pd^σ+ existed in the catalysts based on the XPS analysis. In particular, the reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04 catalyst could catalyze many aromatic, aliphatic, and heterocyclic aldehydes with various functional groups substituted to their corresponding amines products in good to excellent selectivity under mild reaction conditions (70 °C, 2 h, NH₃, 20 bar H₂). This work makes the synthesis of secondary amine more economical and practical through the one-pot reductive amination process, since there are generally many undesired products, such as phenylmethanol, phenylmethanamine, and (E)-N-benzylidene-1-phenylmethanamine, occurring in the reductive amination of benzaldehyde. Moreover, further studies are in progress to design the more stable and precise regulation of Pd-based catalyst and investigate the detailed mechanism of COF-supported Pd catalyzed reductive amination.

Supplementary Materials

The following are available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4344/11/2/287/s1, Figure S1: SEM images of Reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04. Figure S2: TEM mapping of Reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04. Figure S3: (a) The survey spectra and (b) high-resolution XPS spectra of Pd3d for Reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04. Figure S4: The FTIR spectra of SJ-02 and Reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04. Figure S5: XRD patterns of SJ-02 and Reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04. Figure S6: (a) Nitrogen adsorption-desorption isotherms and (b) pore size distribution of SJ-02 and Reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04. Table S1: Comparison with Other Reported Catalysts for the Hydrogenation of Alkynes. Figure S7: Elemental analysis of Reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04. Table S2: Specific surface area, pore volume, pore diameter of SJ-02 and Reduced COF-supported Pd-SJ04. Table S3: The element contents of the as-prepared catalysts determined by TEM spectrum. Figure S8: 1H NMR spectra of phenylacetylene. Figure S9: 1H NMR spectra of diphenethylamine. Figure S10: GC-MS spectra of diphenethylamine. Figure S11: 1H NMR spectra of bis(4-methylbenzyl)amine. Figure S12: GC-MS spectra of bis(4-methylbenzyl)amine. Figure S13: 1H NMR spectra of N, N-bis(p-methoxybenzyl)amine. Figure S14: GC-MS spectras of N, N-bis(p-methoxybenzyl)amine. Figure S15: 1H NMR spectras of bis((furan-2-yl)methyl)amine. Figure S16. GC-MS spectras of bis((furan-2-yl)methyl)amine. Figure S17: 1H NMR spectras of 1-(4-fluorophenyl)-N-[(4-fluorophenyl)methyl]methanamine. Figure S18: GC-MS spectras of 1-(4-fluorophenyl)-N-[(4-fluorophenyl)methyl]methanamine. Figure S19: 1H NMR spectras of N, N-bis(4-chlorobenzyl)amine. Figure S20: GC-MS spectras of N, N-bis(4-chlorobenzyl)amine. Figure S21: 1H NMR spectras of bis-(5-methyl-furan-2-ylmethyl)-amine. Figure S22: GC-MS spectras of bis-(5-methyl-furan-2-ylmethyl)-amine. Figure S23: 1H NMR spectras of bis(2-methylbenzyl)amine. Figure S24: GC-MS spectras of bis(2-methylbenzyl)amine. Figure S25: 1H NMR spectras of N, N-bis(m-methoxybenzyl)amine. Figure S26: GC-MS spectras of N, N-bis(m-methoxybenzyl)amine. Figure S27: 1H NMR spectras of bis(3-fluorobenzyl)amine. Figure S28: GC-MS spectras of bis(3-fluorobenzyl)amine. Figure S29: 1H NMR spectra of N, N-bis(3-chlorobenzyl)amine. Figure S30: GC-MS spectras of N, N-bis(3-chlorobenzyl)amine. Figure S31: 1H NMR spectra of bis(4-aminobenzyl)amine. Figure S32: 1H NMR spectra of N, N-bis(3-hydroxybenzyl)amine. Figure S33: GC-MS spectras of N, N-bis(3-hydroxybenzyl)amine.

Author Contributions

J.L. and L.M. conceived and designed the experiments. M.Z. performed experiments and prepared the Supplementary Information. J.L. wrote the paper. All authors discussed the results and commented on the manuscript. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This research was funded by [National Key R&D Program of China] grant number [2018YFB1501502], [National Natural Science Foundation of China] grant number [2018YFB1501502], [Dalian National Laboratory Cooperation Foundation] grant number [DNL201916]. And The APC was funded by [National Natural Science Foundation of China] and [Dalian National Laboratory Cooperation Foundation].

Data Availability Statement

Data is contained within the article or supplementary material. The data presented in this study are available in [supplementary material of Facile Synthesis of COF-Supported Reduced Pd-based Catalyst for One-Pot Reductive Amination of Aldehydes].

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no competing interests.

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