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Study of Superbase-Based Deep Eutectic Solvents as the Catalyst in the Chemical Fixation of CO₂ into Cyclic Carbonates under Mild Conditions.


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.

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Arguelles S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5551802 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Study of Superbase-Based Deep Eutectic Solvents as the Catalyst in the Chemical Fixation of CO₂ into Cyclic Carbonates under Mild Conditions.

García-Argüelles Sara S   Ferrer Maria Luisa ML   Iglesias Marta M   Del Monte Francisco F   Gutiérrez María Concepción MC  

Materials (Basel, Switzerland) 20170707 7


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 su  ...[more]

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