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Heterogeneous catalysis is an important way to realize green chemistry. Developing excellent heterogeneous catalysts by using appropriate supports is still a mainstream research area. Polyacrylonitrile fiber (PANF), a common textile material in our daily life, has excellent advantages of low cost, high strength, light density, mildew resistance, etc. Furthermore, PANF can be knitted into varieties of shapes, making them very suitable for fixed‐bed catalysis in industries. Consequently, PANF is a fine raw material for the synthesis of heterogeneous catalysts. Therefore, more and more PANF‐based heterogeneous catalysts had been developed and applied to various of reaction systems. In this paper, the research progress of PANF‐based catalysts was reviewed, and the research progress of different PANF catalytic systems and their applications in green chemistry were emphatically introduced, which provided reference to the development of PANF‐supported catalytic technology. Finally, the catalytic system supported by PANF is summarized and prospected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A series of copper(II)‐Schiff bases‐functionalized polyacrylonitrile fiber catalysts were successfully prepared using copper acetate as copper source and characterized by elemental analysis, fourier‐transfer infrared spectroscopy, ultraviolet‐visible spectroscopy, X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy and inductively coupled plasma analysis. Excellent physical strength and thermal stability of the fiber catalysts were demonstrated by scanning electron microscopy, X‐ray diffraction, thermogravimetric/differential scanning calorimetry analysis and mechanical strength measurements. Furthermore, these catalysts were successfully applied to one‐pot multicomponent copper‐catalyzed azide‐alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) reaction and aldehyde, alkyne, amine (A3) coupling reaction in which the influences of different substituent groups on the catalytic activities of fiber catalysts were investigated in detail. Among them, the bis[N‐ethyl‐3,5‐di‐tert‐butyl‐salicylideneiminato]copper(II)‐functionalized polyacrylonitrile fiber (PANS2F−Cu) as a green, efficient catalyst exhibited the best catalytic activity for its high hydrophobic micro‐environment can aggregate the reactants to the catalytic sites and accelerate the reaction. In addition, the PANS2F−Cu has performed well in scaled‐up experiment and shown excellent recyclability (at least ten times), and these enable it to have great potential for further applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Polyacrylonitrile fibers were functionalized with different amines to construct special tridimensional catalytic microenvironments at the surface. The polarity of the microenvironments at the surface of the fiber catalyst was tuned by changing the ratio of hydrophobic and hydrophilic amines. The catalytic performances of these microenvironments were examined for a cyanation reaction in water. Among these fiber catalysts with different microenvironments, the one modified with more hydrophobic benzylamine groups (PANBTF) shows much higher catalytic activity than that modified by hydrophilic ethanolamine groups. PANBTF can efficiently and rapidly catalyze the cyanation reaction of benzaldehyde and ethyl cyanoformate in water with a yield of 94 % at room temperature within 40 min. Moreover, a mechanism promoted by the hydrophobic microenvironment has been proposed to explain the high and specific catalytic activity of PANBTF. In addition, this fiber catalyst exhibited excellent recyclability and reusability (8 times) without further treatment, and it also performed well in flow-chemistry tests and scaled-up experiments, which indicated potential for the application of PANBTF in industrial production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]