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有机碱功能化杂化材料的合成及在酯交换反应中的应用

Organic Base-functionalized Hybrid Materials: Synthesis and Catalytic Properties in Transesterification Reaction

【作者】 刘燕

【导师】 贾明君; 张文祥;

【作者基本信息】 吉林大学 , 物理化学, 2010, 博士

【摘要】 本论文主要采用后嫁接法制备了多种类型有机碱功能化的杂化材料,并考察了这些材料在苯酚和草酸二甲酯酯交换反应中的催化性能。系统研究了有机碱种类和性质、载体的组成和表面酸碱性质等对催化性能的影响;同时结合各种表征手段,对催化剂的结构、表面酸碱等性质进行了研究,并对反应活性中心性质、催化作用机制等问题进行了探讨。采用后嫁接法将不同类型的环戊二烯基衍生物(茂基)固载到介孔材料Si-MCM-41上,发现这类茂基功能化的杂化材料对苯酚和草酸二甲酯酯交换反应表现出良好的催化活性。其中,具有较强Lewis碱性和较小空间位阻的五甲基环戊二烯基功能化的杂化材料(Cp’’-Si-MCM-41)显示出相对较高的反应活性和主产物选择性。甲基环戊二烯基功能化的杂化材料(Cp’-Si-MCM-41)虽然反应活性略低,但却表现很高的稳定性,循环使用多次后,催化活性基本保持不变,这应主要归因于Cp’-具有相对较弱的Lewis碱性,从而使其在反应过程中不易与反应物或生成物产生较强的吸附作用而避免了失活。制备了几种不同类型有机胺功能化的介孔Si-MCM-41材料,考察了它们在酯交换反应中的催化性能。研究结果表明:这些有机胺功能化的杂化材料对该反应表现出较好的催化活性和稳定性;杂化材料的碱中心性质(包括碱强度和碱密度)对酯交换反应性能有显著的影响;催化剂经多次循环使用后反应活性仅略有降低,显示出良好的稳定性和循环性;采用碱处理可以使催化剂的反应活性基本恢复。此外,还对有机胺杂化材料催化剂上酯交换反应历程进行了探讨,阐述了反应副产物(苯甲醚)形成的主要历程。研究了载体种类及表面酸碱性质对有机胺功能化杂化材料的催化性能的影响。结果表明:对于二乙烯三胺基丙基功能化的杂化材料,以具有弱酸性的Al-MCM-41和介孔磷酸铝为载体制备的杂化材料表现出相对较低的催化活性,其原因可能主要是由于在反应体系中,载体表面的弱酸中心与引入的碱性官能团之间产生了相对较强的相互作用所致;此外,发现3-氨丙基功能化的HAP-γ-Fe2O3 (HAP:羟基磷灰石)具有较高的反应活性,这可能是由于载体本身具有的碱性特征对酯交换反应也起到一定的促进作用。

【Abstract】 Diphenyl carbonate (DPC) is an important intermediate for the production of many organic compounds, especially as the precursor for the synthesis of engineering thermoplastics, such as polycarbonates (PC). DPC can also be used to increase the viscosity of polycondensates (e.g. polyamides and polyesters). Because PC possesses excellent mechanical, optical, electrical, and heat resistance properties, which have been used in many fields, there have been increasing demands for DPC. Therefore, DPC synthesis has received much attention as an alternative precursor to PC production. The traditional process for DPC synthesis was based on the reaction of phosgene (or chloroformic acid trichloromethyl ester (diphosgene), bis(trichloromethyl) carbonate) and phenol. Again, the obvious disadvantage of this method is the use of highly toxic phosgene as a raw material. With increasing demands for safer and cleaner processes, various non-phosgene approaches for DPC synthesis have been explored and investigated, including oxidative carbonylation of phenol and transesterification reaction. Among them, transesterification of dimethyl oxalate (DMO) with phenol to diphenyl oxalate (DPO), following a decarbonylation reaction, is an attractive and environmentally friendly route for the synthesis of DPC. The crucial problem of this route is the study on transesterification of DMO with phenol. For this transesterification reaction could not carry out without any catalyst, it is necessary to develop the highly efficient catalysts. Recently, it was reported that a variety of metal oxides bearing weak acidity and/or weak basicity were effective for the transesterification of DMO with phenol. However, the utility of these metal oxides is often limited by metal leaching or catalyst deterioration in liquid phase reaction.Recently, more attention has been drawn on organic-inorganic hybrid materials containing catalytic activities, which can be synthesized by grafting organic molecules bearing acid and/or basicity onto inorganic supports. Compared with other kinds of heterogeneous catalysts, organic-inorganic hybrid materials have been applied in catalytic fields and have excellent application prospects, because of several advantages, such as easy separation of products, high stability and easy reuse.In this thesis, the transesterification of DMO with phenol has been investigated over some different kinds of organic base-functionalized organic-inorganic hybrid materials. The effects of the type of the support and organic base on the catalytic properties of transesterification of phenol with DMO have been investigated. Both the structure and acid-base properties of catalysts were studied by different characterization means of XRD, N2-sorption, CO2-TPD, FT-IR and TGA, etc. Some other problems have also been discussed, including the nature of active sites and the reaction mechanism of the catalysts, and so on. The main experimental results and conclusions are as follows:1. Cyclopentadienyl-functionalized mesoporous Si-MCM-41 catalysts for the transesterification of dimethyl oxalate with phenol Three kinds of hybrid inorganic-organic catalysts (denoted as Cp’-Si-MCM-41, Cp’’-Si-MCM-41 and Cp*-Si-MCM-41) are prepared by grafting methylcyclopentadienyl (Cp’), pentamethylcyclopentadienyl (Cp’’) or 1,2-phenyl-4-methylcyclopentadienyl (Cp*) group onto the surface of mesoporous Si-MCM-41 by a post-grafting method, which can be characterized by means of X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), N2 sorption, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and 29Si MAS NMR. It’s found that such cyclopentadienyl-functionalized materials are active for the transesteri?cation of DMO with phenol. Under test conditions, Cp’’-Si-MCM-41 bearing the relatively strong Lewis basicity and small steric hindrance gives the relatively high conversion of DMO and selectivity of DPO for the transesterification. Furthermore, the hybrid materials of Cp’-Si-MCM-41 and Cp’’-Si-MCM-41 are more active than the corresponding homogeneous catalysts (Cp’H and Cp’’H), in our opinion, there are at least two possible explanations: First, the strength of Lewis basicity of cyclopentadienyl groups may be changed after introducing it onto the surface of mesoporous Si-MCM-41. Second, the structure and the surface properties of the support are in favor of the adsorption and activation of reactant.Moreover, the recyclabilities of these two hybrid catalysts are also investigated. It is found that the catalytic activity of Cp’’-Si-MCM-41 decreases gradually with the increase of recycle time. And Cp’-Si-MCM-41 shows relatively high stability since the catalytic activity of the recycled sample does not change considerably, which might be mainly due to that Cp’- group bears the relatively weak Lewis basicity and the adsorption of organic molecules on the active sites does not easily occurs on Cp’-Si-MCM-41 under our experimental conditions.2. Amino-functionalized mesoporous Si-MCM-41 catalysts for the transesterification of dimethyl oxalate with phenolA series of hybrid mesoporous Si-MCM-41 materials containing different amino groups (e.g. 3-aminopropyl (AP-), (2-aminoethylamino)propyl (AAP-), [2-(2-aminoethylamino)ethylamino]propyl (AEP-) group) were prepared by a post-grafting method, and characterized by means of XRD, N2 adsorption, FT-IR, TGA and temperature-programmed desorption of CO2 (CO2-TPD). The catalytic properties of these hybrid materials were investigated for the transesterification of DMO with phenol. All the samples were active for the transesterification. Among them, the sample AEP-Si-MCM-41 exhibited the highest activity under test conditions, which might be assigned to the relatively strong Lewis basicity of AEP-Si-MCM-41. On the basis of some related literatures, a proposed mechanism for the transesterification of phenol with DMO catalyzed by the amino-functionalized materials was proposed. In short, the amino group could act as Lewis base to assist hydrogen transfer from phenol to the carbonyl oxygen of DMO to form a hexahedral intermediate and then the intermediate decomposes to form the main product along with the release of methanol. Moreover, both the density and the basic strength of the amino groups have notable effects on the catalytic properties. And only a slight decrease in activity could be observed after a few runs, which might be mainly because the adsorption of organic molecules on the active sites occurs on this material. Notably, the activity of the used catalyst could be regenerated by simple treatment with methanol solution of tetramethylamonium hydroxide under a mild condition. By designing several additional reactions, we suppose that the formation of the by-product anisole should be mainly due to the reaction of methyl phenyl oxalate (MPO) with phenol.3. The effect of the support on the catalytic performance of Transesterification over organoamine-functionalized catalystsThe nature of the supports (aluminosilicate and aluminophosphate sieves) have an influence on catalytic performance over organoamine-functionalized hybrid catalysts. Under the same loadings of organic amine, the activity of different amino-functionalized materials decreases in the order: 0.5AEP-Si-MCM-41 > 0.5AEP-AlP1.0Os > 0.5AEP-Al-MCM-41, which might be ascribed to the mutual effects between acidic sites with basic sites under test conditions. In order to discern the above point, the surface M-OH of 0.5AEP-Al-MCM-41 becomes M-OSiMe3 via silazane silylation. The experimental results suggest that the activity of the silylated mesoporous material can clearly be improved.Two kinds of aminopropyl-functionalized magnetic materials containing different supports (e.g. Hydroxyapatite-encapsulatedγ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles, Iron oxide nanoparticles coated with mesoporous silica) were synthesized by a post-grafting method, and used for catalyzing the transesterification of DMO with phenol. The results suggest that 0.75AP/HAP-γ-Fe2O3 shows much higher activity than either 0.75AP/γ-Fe2O3@SiO2 or 0.75AP-Si-MCM-41. A reasonable explanation is that the cooperative activation between base carrier (HAP-γ-Fe2O3) and basic group (AP-). Considering magnetic hydroxyapatite-encapsulatedγ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles with cheap raw material, easy preparation and recovery, therefore, this kind of organo-functionalized hydroxyapatite-encapsulatedγ-Fe2O3 materials will have excellent application prospects.

  • 【网络出版投稿人】 吉林大学
  • 【网络出版年期】2010年 08期
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