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- Title
Study of Superbase-Based Deep Eutectic Solvents as the Catalyst in the Chemical Fixation of CO<sub>2</sub> into Cyclic Carbonates under Mild Conditions.
- Authors
García-Argüelles, Sara; Ferrer, Maria Luisa; Iglesias, Marta; Del Monte, Francisco; Gutiérrez, María Concepción
- Abstract
Superbases have shown high performance as catalysts in the chemical fixation of CO2 to epoxides. The proposed reaction mechanism typically assumes the formation of a superbase, the CO2 adduct as the intermediate, most likely because of the well-known affinity between superbases and CO2, i.e., superbases have actually proven quite effective for CO2 absorption. In this latter use, concerns about the chemical stability upon successive absorption-desorption cycles also merits attention when using superbases as catalysts. In this work, ¹H NMR spectroscopy was used to get further insights about (1) whether a superbase, the CO2 adduct, is formed as an intermediate and (2) the chemical stability of the catalyst after reaction. For this purpose, we proposed as a model system the chemical fixation of CO2 to epichlorohydrin (EP) using a deep eutectic solvent (DES) composed of a superbase, e.g., 2,3,4,6,7,8-hexahydro-1H-pyrimido[1,2-a]pyrimidine (TBD) or 2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10-octahydropyrimido[1,2-a]azepine (DBU), as a hydrogen acceptor and an alcohol as a hydrogen bond donor, e.g., benzyl alcohol (BA), ethylene glycol (EG), and methyldiethanolamine (MDEA), as the catalyst. The resulting carbonate was obtained with yields above 90% and selectivities approaching 100% after only two hours of reaction in pseudo-mild reaction conditions, e.g., 1.2 bars and 100 °C, and after 20 h if the reaction conditions of choice were even milder, e.g., 1.2 bars and 50 °C. These results were in agreement with previous works using bifunctional catalytic systems composed of a superbase and a hydrogen bond donor (HBD) also reporting good yields and selectivities, thus confirming the suitability of our choice to perform this study.
- Subjects
CARBON dioxide fixation; EPOXY compounds; SUPERBASES (Chemistry); CHEMICAL stability; EUTECTIC reactions
- Publication
Materials (1996-1944), 2017, Vol 10, Issue 7, p759
- ISSN
1996-1944
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ma10070759