Issue 11, 2019

An aluminum(iii) picket fence phthalocyanine-based heterogeneous catalyst for ring-expansion carbonylation of epoxides

Abstract

An effective heterogeneous catalyst for ring-expansion carbonylation of epoxides may have additional advantages over the homogeneous counterpart in terms of facile product separation and recyclability. A new Al(III) picket fence phthalocyanine complex was synthesized and directly knitted using the Friedel–Crafts reaction to prepare a solid porous network, which was ultimately used to immobilize [Co(CO)4] ions. The resulting heterogeneous catalyst, [Lewis acid]+[Co(CO)4], efficiently catalyzes the conversion of various epoxides into the corresponding β-lactones with high selectivity (99%) and stoichiometric conversion under mild reaction conditions, along with good functional group tolerance.

Graphical abstract: An aluminum(iii) picket fence phthalocyanine-based heterogeneous catalyst for ring-expansion carbonylation of epoxides

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 Dec 2018
Accepted
13 Feb 2019
First published
14 Feb 2019

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019,7, 6120-6125

An aluminum(III) picket fence phthalocyanine-based heterogeneous catalyst for ring-expansion carbonylation of epoxides

J. Jiang and S. Yoon, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019, 7, 6120 DOI: 10.1039/C8TA11877A

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