Browsing by Author "Yepes, Yersica Rios"

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    Highly Active CO2 Fixation into Cyclic Carbonates Catalyzed by Tetranuclear Aluminum Benzodiimidazole-Diylidene Adducts
    (2021) Mesias-Salazar, Angela; Yepes, Yersica Rios; Martinez, Javier; Rojas, Rene S.
    A set of tetranuclear alkyl aluminum adducts 1 and 2 supported by benzodiimidazole-diylidene ligands L-1, N,N'-(1,5-diisopropylbenzodiimidazole-2,6-diylidene)bis(propan-2-amine), and L-2, N,N'-(1,5-dicyclohexyl-benzodiimidazole-2,6-diylidene)dicyclohexanamine were synthetized in exceptional yields and characterized by spectroscopic methods. These compounds were studied as catalysts for cyclic carbonate formation (3a-o) from their corresponding terminal epoxides (2a-o) and carbon dioxide utilizing tetrabutylammonium iodide as a nucleophile in the absence of a solvent. The experiments were carried out at 70 degrees C and 1 bar CO2 pressure for 24 h and adduct 1 was the most efficient catalyst for the synthesis of a large variety of monosubstituted cyclic carbonates with excellent conversions and yields.