The addition of carbon dioxide to glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) was investigated in a semi-batch reactor using immobilized quaternary ammonium chloride catalysts. Five different catalysts were prepared with the following supports: (1) soluble poly(ST-co-VBC)[C1], (2) insoluble poly(ST-DVB-VBC)[C2], (3) macroporous poly(ST-DVB-VBC)[C3], (4) poly(ST-co-VBC)-MMT[C4], (5) modified MCM41[C5]. The addition of carbon dioxide to GMA can be considered as pseudo first-order with the concentration of GMA. The soluble poly(ST-co-VBC)-supported catalyst containing benzyltributylammonium chloride group showed the highest reaction rate. The order of the pseudo first-order rate constant for the catalysts was C1 > C3 > C2 > C4 > C5. The activation energy for the C1-C5 catalysts was 11.5, 28.1, 20.8, 36.6 and 39.3 kJ/mol, respectively. The immobilized catalysts can be reused for at least four successive runs without any considerable loss of their initial reactivities. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.