Sulfonated Porous Aromatic Frameworks as solid acid catalysts.

by M. G. Goesten, A. Szécsényi, M. F. De Lange, A. V. Bavykina, K. B. Sai Sankar Gupta, F. Kapteijn, J. Gascon
Year: 2016 ISSN: DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201501340

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​M. G. Goesten, A. Szécsényi, M. F. de Lange, A. V. Bavykina, K. B. Sai Sankar Gupta, F. Kapteijn, J. Gascon, ChemCatChem 8 (2016) 961-967, Sulfonated Porous Aromatic Frameworks as solid acid catalysts

Abstract

​The synthesis, characterization, sulfonation, and catalytic performance of two new porous aromatic frameworks are presented. The polymers, which were obtained by the Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling of the commercially available precursors 1,3,5-tris(4-bromophenyl)benzene or tris(4-bromophenyl)amine and benzene-1 4-diboronic acid, only contain aromatic sp2 C−C and C−N bonds, display excellent thermal and chemical stability, and allow for post-synthetic functionalization under very harsh reaction conditions. Upon post-synthetic treatment at 160 °C in 98 wt % sulfuric acid, approximately 65 % of the benzene rings in the polymers were sulfonated. The materials were characterized by solid-state NMR spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, FTIR spectroscopy, and textural analysis. The sulfonated materials display an excellent catalytic performance in the acid-catalyzed esterification of n-butanol and acetic acid and have a similar or even superior performance to that of state-of-the-art Amberlyst-15 over multiple catalytic cycles.

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M. G. Goesten A. Szécsényi M. F. de Lange A. V. Bavykina K. B. Sai Sankar Gupta F. Kapteijn J. Gascon