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Synthesis and Performance Characterizations of Transition Metal Single Atom Catalyst for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
Published on: April 10, 2018
B-containing ionic liquid modified SBA-15 for CO2-epoxide coupling reaction metal-free catalysis
Yifei Ye1, Yuanyuan Cui2, Li Yang1
1Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Clean Conversion and High ValueUtilization of Biomass Resources, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yili Normal University, China; State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, MIIT Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and Storage, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150080, China.
Abstract:
A novel external-skeleton B-containing ionic liquid modified SBA-15 catalyst BBN-Imi-SBA-15-I (BBN denotes borabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane, Imi represents imidazolium ionic liquid) was successfully constructed by a post-modification method for efficiently catalyzing CO2-epoxide coupling reaction under both metal- and solvent-free conditions. 5BBN-Imi-SBA-15-I (5 refers to the molar ratio of Si to B), thanks to its synergistic effects of Lewis acid, weak base sites from tertiary amine and quaternary ammonium, hydrogen bond group and nucleophilic group, displayed good catalytic activity with 97 % product yield and 99 % selectivity at 100 °C, 2 MPa in the absence of cocatalyst. The obtained catalyst demonstrated good recyclability during six consecutive catalytic runs, also presented generality for various mono-substitute epoxides. Through in-situ NH3 diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (NH3-DRIFTS) characterization, the Lewis acidity of organo-boron was verified. Besides, kinetics research also proved the positive effect of multiple active components on efficient catalysis under milder conditions over SiO2-based metal-free catalysts.
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