Novel Biomass-Derived Fe3O4@Pd NPs as Efficient and Sustainable Nanocatalyst for Nitroarene Reduction in Aqueous Media

A novel magnetically recyclable nitrogen-doped Fe3O4@Pd NPs was prepared from the biomass-based materials which was employed as carbon and nitrogen source. The as-prepared catalysts were fully characterized by a variety of physicochemical techniques and were exploited for nitroaromatic hydrogenation with broad scope and excellent chemoselectivity using molecular hydrogen as a reductant. The heterogeneous catalysts can be recovered easily and reused for at least eight recycling reactions without obviously loss of catalytic properties. In addition, using this protocol, the key intermediate of marketed drug Osimertinib could be synthesized easily.