Dual-ionic imidazolium salts to promote synthesis of cyclic carbonates at atmospheric pressure

Tengfei Wang; Danning Zheng; Beibei An; Yi Liu; Tiegang Ren; Hans Ågren; Li Wang; Jinglai Zhang; Mårten S.G. Ahlquist

doi:10.1016/j.gee.2021.02.011

Dual-ionic imidazolium salts to promote synthesis of cyclic carbonates at atmospheric pressure

Tengfei Wang
, Danning Zheng
, Beibei An
, Yi Liu
, Tiegang Ren
, Hans Ågren
, Li Wang^*
, Jinglai Zhang
, Mårten S.G. Ahlquist

^*Corresponding author for this work

Henan University
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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Novel dual-ionic imidazolium salts are shown to display excellent catalytic activity for cycloaddition of carbon dioxide and epoxides under room temperature and atmospheric pressure (0.1 MPa) without any solvent and co-catalyst leading to 96.1% product yield. It can be reused five times to keep the product yield over 90%. These intriguing results are attributed to a new reaction mechanism, which is supported by theoretical calculations along with the measurements of ¹³C NMR spectrum and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). The excellent catalytic activity can be traced to a CO₂-philic group along with an electrophilic hydrogen atom. Our work shows that incorporation of CO₂-philic group is an feasible pathway to develop the new efficient ionic liquids.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1327-1339
Number of pages	13
Journal	Green Energy and Environment
Volume	7
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gee.2021.02.011
State	Published - Dec 2022
Externally published	Yes

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Atmospheric pressure
CO-Philic group
Dual-ionic imidazolium salts
New mechanism
Room temperature

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Dual-ionic imidazolium salts to promote synthesis of cyclic carbonates at atmospheric pressure

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