Catalysis Letters, Vol.148, No.6, 1703-1713, 2018
Efficient Synthesis of Branched Polyamine Based Thermally Stable Heterogeneous Catalyst for Knoevenagel Condensation at Room Temperature
In this paper, a new convenient strategy for the synthesis of polyethylenimine functionalized Si-MCM-41 grafted on surface modified graphene oxide has been developed. The as-synthesised catalyst exerts good catalytic activity and reusability toward Knoevenagel condensation of different substituted aromatic aldehydes with malononitrile and ethyl cyanoacetate. Moreover, it shows remarkable thermal stability. The physicochemical characteristics of the catalyst as probed by FTIR, XRD, N-2 sorption isotherms, TGA, XPS, FESEM, TEM, and solid state C-13 NMR analyses, were discussed to get an idea about the catalytic mechanism of Knoevenagel condensation. [GRAPHICS] .
Keywords:Si-MCM-41-PEI-GO catalyst;Knoevenagel condensation;Room temperature reaction;Heterogeneous catalysis