Ionic liquid/H2O-mediated synthesis of mesoporous organic polymers and their application in methylation of amines

Xiaoxiao Yu; Zhenzhen Yang; Hongye Zhang; Bo Yu; Yanfei Zhao; Zhenghui Liu; Guipeng Ji; Zhimin Liu

doi:10.1039/c7cc01910f

Ionic liquid/H₂O-mediated synthesis of mesoporous organic polymers and their application in methylation of amines

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 May 30;53(44):5962-5965. doi: 10.1039/c7cc01910f.

Authors

Xiaoxiao Yu¹, Zhenzhen Yang, Hongye Zhang, Bo Yu, Yanfei Zhao, Zhenghui Liu, Guipeng Ji, Zhimin Liu

Affiliation

¹ Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Thermodynamics, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China. liuzm@iccas.ac.cn.

PMID: 28503690
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc01910f

Abstract

Mesoporous Tröger's base-functionalized polymers (Meso-TBPs) were prepared using a sulfonic acid group functionalized ionic liquid/H₂O system, with surface areas up to 431 m² g^-1 and pore sizes of 3-15 nm. Ir(ii) coordinated Meso-TBPs exhibited extraordinary catalytic performance in the N-methylation of amines using methanol.