Halide-free CO2 cycloaddition onto styrene oxide catalysed by first row transition-metal derivatives of polyoxotungstates

Jingjing Ren; Anna Proust; Franck Launay; Richard Villanneau

doi:10.1039/d4cc00522h

Halide-free CO₂ cycloaddition onto styrene oxide catalysed by first row transition-metal derivatives of polyoxotungstates

Chem Commun (Camb). 2024 Apr 23;60(34):4549-4552. doi: 10.1039/d4cc00522h.

Authors

Jingjing Ren¹, Anna Proust¹, Franck Launay², Richard Villanneau¹

Affiliations

¹ Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, CNRS UMR 8232, Sorbonne Université, Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 Place Jussieu, Paris F-75005, France. richard.villanneau@sorbonne-universite.fr.
² Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface, UMR CNRS 7197, Sorbonne Université, Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 Place Jussieu, Paris F-75005, France.

PMID: 38577743
DOI: 10.1039/d4cc00522h

Abstract

Quaternary ammonium salts of metal derivatives of polyoxometalates [XW₁₁O₃₉M(H₂O)]^n- (X = P, Si; M = Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Zn) were successfully tested instead of quaternary ammonium halides as catalysts in the cycloaddition of CO₂ to styrene oxide. Remarkably, they gave very satisfactory yields of styrene carbonate at moderate temperature (80 °C).