Journal
JOURNAL OF CO2 UTILIZATION
Volume 57, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcou.2022.101884
Keywords
Carbon dioxide fixation; Bifunctional catalyst; Al-porphyrin; Cyclic carbonates; Carbon nanotubes
Funding
- University of Palermo
- Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) [2017W8KNZW]
- F.R.S-FNRS [GEQ U.G014.19, EQP U.N034.17]
- University of Palermo and University of Namur
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This study proposes an efficient method for the conversion of CO2 into cyclic carbonates using a hybrid system based on aluminum chloride tetrastyrylporphyrin and multi-walled carbon nanotubes. The prepared materials exhibit high catalytic activity and stability under solvent-free conditions.
The increased awareness of the catastrophic consequences caused by the accumulation of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere has generated a large mobilization aimed at CO2 mitigation. Herein, in the spirit of the transformation of a waste as CO2 into value added products, we propose an efficient preparation of two different hybrid systems based on aluminum chloride tetrastyrylporphyrin (TSP-Al-Cl) and 1,4-butanediyl-3,3'-bis-1-vinylimidazolium dibromide copolymerized in the presence (MWCNT-TSP-AlCl-imi) and in absence (TSP-AlCl-imi) of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) for the CO2 utilization in the synthesis of cyclic carbonates. The so-prepared materials have been thoroughly characterized by means of several spectroscopic and analytical techniques. The MWCNT-TSP-AlCl-imi heterogenous catalyst enabled the highly efficient chemical transformation of CO2 and epoxides into cyclic carbonates with high turnover number (TON) and frequency (TOF) values at low temperature down to 30 degrees C in solvent-free conditions. MWCNT-TSP-AlCl-imi proved to be a very stable and reusable heterogeneous catalyst in consecutive cycles without the need of any reactivation procedure and no leaching phenomena. Furthermore, the optimal morphology of MWCNT-TSP-AlCl-imi, with the cross-linked polymer uniformly distributed onto MWCNTs backbone, resulted in a more active catalyst with a TON double than the unsupported one. The enhanced activity of MWCNT-TSP-AlCl-imi can be ascribed to its higher surface area that permits fully accessible catalytic sites. Interestingly, MWCNT-TSP-AlCl-imi also showed a catalytic activity comparable to a reference homogeneous catalytic system, proving that synergism occurred between the metal centers and the nucleophilic sites due to their close proximity.
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