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Ionic Liquids in Catalysis 2015

A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2015) | Viewed by 10954

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Dr. Jason P. Hallett

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Interests: ionic liquids; biopolymers; biomass fractionation; cellulose; plastic depolymerization; sustainable processes
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Dear Colleagues,

Ionic liquids have benefited from an explosion of interest in recent years. Applications include electrochemistry, biofuels, and carbon capture; these applications have caught the interest of chemists worldwide. However, ionic liquids owe much of their sustained success to their involvement in the field of catalysis, where they first developed a following in the 1990s. From the uses of ionic liquids as solvents for catalysis, to catalyst activators, catalyst recycling media, and even as catalysts themselves, ionic liquids have become exciting media for promoting catalytic chemistry research. This has included research on homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, and also on nanoparticle catalysis and recently, biocatalysis. The acidic and basic functionalities built into these tailor-made solvents have also been utilized to activate catalysts, promote certain selectivities, and even to act as catalytically active agents.

In this Special Issue, we focus on the uses of ionic liquids as solvents capable of promoting catalytic reactions, with all types of catalytic chemistries. The role of the ionic liquid as a solvent, and its special interactions with the catalytic species, and the role in catalytic cycles, will be of special interest. Ionic liquid uses in all application areas are welcome, and the emerging role of ionic liquids in the new frontiers of catalysis will be the key to unlocking the use of these exciting new solvents, which activate new catalytic frontiers.

Dr Jason Hallett
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Keywords

  • ionic liquids
  • catalyst recycling
  • green chemistry

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Ionic Liquids as Carbene Catalyst Precursors in the One-Pot Four-Component Assembly of Oxo Triphenylhexanoates (OTHOs)
by Anton Axelsson, Linda Ta and Henrik Sundén
Catalysts 2015, 5(4), 2052-2067; https://doi.org/10.3390/catal5042052 - 27 Nov 2015
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Ionic liquids (ILs) are a convenient and inexpensive source of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs). In this study, dialkyl imidazolium-based ILs are used as carbene precursors in a four-component synthesis of oxo triphenylhexanoates (OTHOs), where it was found that IL outperformed commonly used NHC precatalysts [...] Read more.
Ionic liquids (ILs) are a convenient and inexpensive source of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs). In this study, dialkyl imidazolium-based ILs are used as carbene precursors in a four-component synthesis of oxo triphenylhexanoates (OTHOs), where it was found that IL outperformed commonly used NHC precatalysts in terms of reaction efficiency. The reaction is highly stereoselective, delivering the anti-diastereomer (20:1 dr), and the OTHOs can be obtained in high-to-excellent yields. By virtue of the four-component reaction-setup, facile construction of the OTHO scaffold with a diverse set of functional groups (21 examples) can be achieved. In the context of sustainability, the IL can be recovered and reused several times without affecting selectivity or yield. Moreover, most compounds can be isolated by precipitation and filtration, mitigating the use of solvent-demanding chromatography. Full article
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PEG1000-Based Dicationic Acidic Ionic Liquid Catalyzed One-Pot Synthesis of 4-Aryl-3-Methyl-1-Phenyl-1H-Benzo[h]pyrazolo [3,4-b]quinoline-5,10-Diones via Multicomponent Reactions
by Yi-Ming Ren, Shuo Jin, Hai-Jun Yan and Ze Zhang
Catalysts 2015, 5(4), 1649-1656; https://doi.org/10.3390/catal5041649 - 25 Sep 2015
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A novel and green approach for efficient and rapid synthesis of 4-aryl-3-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-benzo[h]pyrazolo[3,4-b]quinoline-5,10-diones has been accomplished by the one-pot condensation reaction of aromatic aldehydes, 3-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-5-amine and 2-hydroxynaphthalene-1,4-dione using PEG1000-based dicationic acidic ionic liquid (PEG [...] Read more.
A novel and green approach for efficient and rapid synthesis of 4-aryl-3-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-benzo[h]pyrazolo[3,4-b]quinoline-5,10-diones has been accomplished by the one-pot condensation reaction of aromatic aldehydes, 3-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-5-amine and 2-hydroxynaphthalene-1,4-dione using PEG1000-based dicationic acidic ionic liquid (PEG1000-DAIL) as a catalyst was reported. Recycling studies have shown that the PEG1000-DAIL can be readily recovered and reused several times without significant loss of activity. The key advantages are the short reaction time, high yields, simple workup, and recovered catalyst. Full article
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