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Heterogeneous Removal of Water-Soluble Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalyst from Aqueous Media Via Host-Guest Interaction
Published on: August 23, 2018
Supported ruthenium-carbene catalyst on ionic magnetic nanoparticles for olefin metathesis
Shu-Wei Chen1, Zhi-Cheng Zhang, Miaofeng Ma
1College of Science, Northwest A&F University , Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, P.R. China.
Abstract:
The Grubbs-Hoveyda ruthenium-carbene complex has been covalently immobilized on ionic magnetic nanoparticles utilizing an imidazolium salt linker. The supported catalyst exhibited excellent catalytic activity for ring-closing metathesis (RCM) and cross-metathesis (CM) in the presence of less than 1 mol % of ruthenium. The catalysts can easily be recovered magnetically and reused up to seven times with minimal leaching of ruthenium species.
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