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Efficient cycloaddition of CO2 and epoxides to cyclic carbonates using salen-based covalent organic framework as a heterogeneous catalyst

Journal

JOURNAL OF POROUS MATERIALS
Volume 29, Issue 4, Pages 1253-1263

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10934-022-01246-w

Keywords

CO2 cycloadditions; Epoxides; Cyclic carbonate; Salen; COF

Funding

  1. Pujiang Talent Projects [16PJD016]

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A mesoporous crystalline Salen-COF was synthesized and metalated to Salen-COF-Co catalyst. The catalyst exhibited high reactivity and selectivity in CO2 cycloaddition reactions, enabling the synthesis of cyclic carbonates.
Salen-based covalent organic framework (COF), constructed by salen skeleton, has great potential applications as the heterogeneous catalyst due to its unique salen-functionalized structure and uniform porous microenvironment. In this study, the mesoporous crystalline salen-COF was facile synthesized via heating salicylaldehyde and ethylenediamine in the air and characterized by fourier transform infrared, powder X-ray diffractometer, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller, and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometer. The deliberately selected macromonomer endowed salen-COF with a large pore size (2.06 nm). After metalation with cobalt, the obtained salen-COF-Co exhibited high Co(salen) crystallinity as well as the well-retained COF structure. Under the optimized reaction conditions (0.25 mol% salen-COF-Co, 120 degrees C, and 2.0 MPa CO2), the salen-COF-Co exhibited high reactivity and > 99% selectivity for the CO2 cycloaddition with varieties of epoxides (12 examples) to afford multifunctional cyclic carbonates. Noting that the cyclic bis- and tris-carbonates were successfully obtained with high conversions and > 99% selectivities. Moreover, the unsubstituted trimethylene oxide and hydroxyl-functionalized substituted 3-ethyl-3-methyloloxetane were successfully converted to the corresponding six-membered cyclic carbonates with moderate conversions and > 99% selectivities. In addition, during at least five recycle tests, the robust heterogeneous salen-COF-Co exhibited excellent recyclability and reusability, maintaining high crystallinity and ordered porous structure with stable reactivity. This study provides a potential heterogeneous porous catalyst for selective CO2 cycloaddition with epoxides and oxetanes.

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