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APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
Volume 245, Issue -, Pages 240-250Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2018.12.062
Keywords
Bifunctional catalyst; CO2 cycloaddition; Iron-containing ionic liquid; Kinetic studies; Mechanistic studies
Funding
- EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Chemistry [EP/L015633/1]
- European Community through a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) [704710]
- EPSRC
- EPSRC [EP/P013341/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [704710] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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An imidazolium based iron-containing ionic liquid [BMIm] [Fe(NO)(2)Cl-2] (BMIm = 1-n-butyl-3-methyl-imidazolium) has been synthesized for the first time and fully characterized employing a wide range of techniques. The iron-based containing ionic liquid was found to be an active catalyst for the cycloaddition of CO2 to epoxides, giving high conversions for various substrates under near ambient conditions. In addition, the catalytic system showed a good recycling performance for five consecutive reaction cycles. Key mechanistic studies demonstrated that a bifunctional catalytic system is generated in situ by the partial dissociation of the iron-based ionic liquid into [BMIm] [Cl], which results in a very efficient catalyst without the need of any additive or co catalyst. The metal center plays a role as Lewis acid and activate the epoxide group, and the chloride anion, as part of [BMIm] [Cl] moiety, acts as nucleophile and leads to the ring opening through a nucleophilic attack on the less sterically-hindered CB. The process is favoured by an interaction via H-bonding between the substrate and the H-C2 of the imidazolium ring, as was demonstrated by additional experiments. Kinetic studies indicated that the process followed first-order kinetics with respect to epoxide concentration and proved the existence of a reversible coordination/de-coordination equilibrium in which the active species are generated from the [BMIm] [Fe(NO)2C12] complex.
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