abstract
The improvement of sustainable chemical processes plays a pivotal role in safe environmental and societal development, for example, by reducing the use of hazardous substances, preventing chemical waste, and improving the efficiency of chemical reactions to obtain added-value compounds. In this context, the porous coordination polymer MOF-808 (MOF, metal-organic framework) was prepared by a straightforward method in water, at room temperature, and was unequivocally characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, vibrational spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, and scanning electron microscopy. MOF-808 material was applied for the first time as catalysts in ring-opening aminolysis reactions of epoxides. It demonstrated high activity and selectivity for reactions of styrene oxide and cyclohexene oxide with aniline, using a very low amount of an eco-sustainable solvent (0.5 mL of EtOH), at 70 degrees C. Moreover, MOF-808 demonstrated high stability in the catalytic reaction conditions applied, and a notable reuse capacity of up to 20 consecutive reaction cycles, without significant variation in its catalytic performance. In fact, this Zr-based porous coordination polymer prepared by environment-friendly conditions proved to be a novel efficient heterogeneous catalyst, promoting the ring-opening reaction of epoxides under more sustainable conditions, and using a very low amount of catalyst.
keywords
METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS; OXIDATIVE DESULFURIZATION; HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSTS; STYRENE OXIDE; PERFORMANCE; REGIOSELECTIVITY; NUCLEOPHILES; SITES
subject category
Polymer Science
authors
Ferreira, CES; Santos-Vieira, I; Gomes, CR; Balula, SS; Cunha-Silva, L
our authors
Isabel Cristina Maia da Silva Santos Vieira
Junior Researcheracknowledgements
L.C.S. and S.S.B. thank FCT/MCTES for supporting their contract positions via the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (Ref. CEECIND/00793/2018 and Ref. CEECIND/03877/2018, respectively). The position held by I.S.-V. (Ref. 197_97_ARH-2018) was supported by national funds (OE), through FCT, I. P., in the scope of the framework contract foreseen in the numbers 4, 5, and 6 of article 23 of the Decree-Law 57/2016 of 29 August, changed by Law 57/2017 of 19 July.