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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 5, Issue 88, Pages 72361-72368Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5ra13533h
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21376032]
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Technology [BM2012110]
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
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Functionalized imidazolium-based ionic liquids (ILs) with different halides (Cl, Br, and I) were successfully immobilized on the surface of graphene oxide materials by one step through covalent condensation between alcoholic hydroxyl groups of GO and alkoxyl groups of functionalized ILs. Several characterization including TG, Raman, AFM, FT-IR, and XPS techniques have been applied to characterize the physicochemical properties of the synthesized GO-[SmIm] X materials. In the solvent-free cycloaddition reactions of CO2 to propylene oxide, GO-[SmIm] I showed remarkably catalytic activity, affording a maximum yield of propylene carbonate as ca. 96%. The heterogeneous catalyst could be reused for at least four runs without any significant loss in activity, and demonstrated versatile catalysis for a wide range of substrates. A possible catalytic mechanism has been proposed, wherein epoxides were activated by the oxygen-containing groups of GO and the halide anions of the grafted ILs acted as key active species for the catalytic cycloaddition reactions.
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