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Aluminum‐Mediated Formation of Cyclic Carbonates: Benchmarking Catalytic Performance Metrics
Author(s) -
Rintjema Jeroen,
Kleij Arjan W.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
chemsuschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.412
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1864-564X
pISSN - 1864-5631
DOI - 10.1002/cssc.201601712
Subject(s) - benchmarking , catalysis , nucleophile , carbonate , chemistry , binary number , aluminium , combinatorial chemistry , chemical engineering , computer science , materials science , organic chemistry , mathematics , engineering , arithmetic , marketing , business
We report a comparative study on the activity of a series of fifteen binary catalysts derived from various reported aluminum‐based complexes. A benchmarking of their initial rates in the coupling of various terminal and internal epoxides in the presence of three different nucleophilic additives was carried out, providing for the first time a useful comparison of activity metrics in the area of cyclic organic carbonate formation. These investigations provide a useful framework for how to realistically valorize relative reactivities and which features are important when considering the ideal operational window of each binary catalyst system.