Arunachalam, Rajendran published the artcileCatalytic Conversion of Carbon Dioxide Using Binuclear Double-Stranded Helicates: Cyclic Carbonate from Epoxides and Diol, Application of Picolinonitrile, the main research area is transition metal Schiff pyridylaldehyde malonohydrazide succinohydrazide glutarohydrazide complex preparation; carbonation catalyst transition metal Schiff pyridylaldehyde malonohydrazide succinohydrazide glutarohydrazide; crystal structure transition metal Schiff pyridylaldehyde malonohydrazide succinohydrazide glutarohydrazide.
The construction of sophisticated mol. architectures from chem. subunits requires careful selection of the spacers, precise synthetic strategies, and substantial efforts. The authors report a series of binuclear double-stranded helicates synthesized from different combinations of pyridyl hydrazone-based multidentate ligands (H2L1, H2L2, H2L3) by increasing the methylene spacer and transition metals (Co, Ni, and Zn). The ligands H2L1 (N’1,N’3-bis((E)-pyridin-2-ylmethylene)malonohydrazide), H2L2 (N’1,N’4-bis((E)-pyridin-2-ylmethylene)succinohydrazide), and H2L3 (N’1,N’5-bis((E)-pyridin-2-ylmethylene)glutarohydrazide) and their resp. complexes with Co, Ni, and Zn were obtained. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies of these binuclear metallohelicates confirm the double-stranded helical structure of the complexes derived from H2L2. The set of helicates Co-1, Co-2, and Co-3; Ni-1, Ni-2, and Ni-3; and Zn-1, Zn-2, and Zn-3 were investigated for its catalytic activity in the cyclic carbonate formation reaction. Intriguingly, among the synthesized catalyst, Co-1 was found to be better in terms of conversions with the calculated TOF (turnover frequency) of 128/h. The catalytic performance was significantly improved by adding 0.2 mmol of tetrabutylammonium bromide by achieving 76% conversion in 30 min, with the observed TOF of 15,934 h-1/mol. and 7967 h-1/Co center. The results obtained herein show that the double-stranded helicates are effective catalysts for converting both terminal and non-terminal epoxides into their corresponding cyclic carbonates. The striking feature of this catalytic protocol lies in demonstrating the catalytic activity for the conversion of diol to cyclic carbonate, and the detailed kinetic experiments tempted us to propose a tentative reaction mechanism for this conversion.
ACS Omega published new progress about Carbonation catalysts. 100-70-9 belongs to class nitriles-buliding-blocks, name is Picolinonitrile, and the molecular formula is C6H4N2, Application of Picolinonitrile.
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