A biscationic imidazolium ionic liquid immobilized on graphene oxide as an efficient heterogeneous catalyst for the synthesis of tetraketone derivatives

Abstract

The present work describes the synthesis of a material consisting of a bisimidazolium ionic liquid supported on graphene oxide. The prepared nanocomposite was characterized by different physicochemical techniques such as FT-IR, XRD, CHN, SEM, TEM and EDAX. The synthesized nanocomposite was further utilized as an effective heterogeneous catalyst for the synthesis of tetraketone derivatives, which are biologically significant, using dimedone and aryl aldehydes as the substrates at 50 °C and a green solvent. One of the tetraketone products has been confirmed by single crystal XRD. The catalyst displayed high reaction yields, facile separation, short reaction time, good stability and recoverability up to six consecutive reaction rounds with no discernible loss in its catalytic activity.