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A Facile and Green Route for Conversion of Bifunctional Epoxide and Vegetable Oils to Cyclic Carbonate: A Green Route to CO2 Fixation
Author(s) -
Farhadian Abdolreza,
Gol Afshani Meisam Babapour,
Babaei Miyardan Ahmad,
Nabid Mohammad Reza,
Safari Nasser
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
chemistryselect
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 34
ISSN - 2365-6549
DOI - 10.1002/slct.201601891
Subject(s) - epoxide , catalysis , bifunctional , chemistry , manganese , solvent , porphyrin , zinc , yield (engineering) , monomer , selectivity , carbon fixation , carbonate , ammonium , organic chemistry , inorganic chemistry , nuclear chemistry , materials science , polymer , carbon dioxide , metallurgy
A porphyrin based catalytic system with three metals of Manganese, Zinc and Iron and quaternary ammonium salt as co‐catalyst showed very high selectivity for CO 2 fixation reaction of different epoxide monomers for synthesizing cyclic carbonates. The reaction showed quantitative yields under solvent‐free and atmospheric pressure. Quaternary ammonium salts were able to catalyse these reactions singlehandedly, thus their mole ratios were decreased to investigate metalloporphyrins effect. After three cycles of reusing, this catalytic system showed minor reduction in activity and no weight loss. Also, manganese porphyrin has high ability to convert bifunctional epoxides (yield 98% in 4h) and vegetable oil by CO 2 (yield 99% in 30h) to cyclic carbonates at ambient condition.