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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 133, 期 33, 页码 13151-13161出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja204481w
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- BMBF [01 RC 0902 A]
Copolymerization of epoxides and CO2 with heterogeneous zinc dicarboxylates is prominent since the early days of this area of chemistry. However, in over 30 years of research, the efficiency of this catalyst system could not be improved significantly. Furthermore, a huge activity difference between zinc glutarate and its lower homologue zinc succinate exists, which could not be explained so far. A detailed investigation of the underlying copolymerization mechanisms on heterogeneous catalysts is therefore necessary. Such investigations are so far lacking, which renders logical improvements of the catalysts difficult. We therefore decided to conduct a detailed investigation on the different zinc-dicarboxylic catalysts, their copolymerization efficiency, solid state structure and supplemented the results with theoretical calculations. The results imply that the widely discussed bimetallic mechanism (for homogeneous catalysts) is in place for heterogeneous zinc dicarboxylates as well. Theoretical calculations conducted to identify an ideal Zn-Zn distance suggest an optimal separation of Zn atoms in the range of 4.3-5.0 angstrom. The combined copolymerization experiments and calculated models give a consistent explanation for the difference in activity of the different zinc-dicarboxylate catalysts and give a hint why the activity of the heterogeneous zinc-dicarboxylate system is limited.
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