Multifunctional mesoporous silica catalyst

Title: Multifunctional mesoporous silica catalyst

The present invention provides bifunctional silica mesoporous materials, including mesoporous silica nanoparticles ("MSN"), having pores modified with diarylammonium triflate and perfluoroaryl moieties, that are useful for the acid-catalyzed esterification of organic acids with organic alcohols.

Inventors:: Lin, Victor Shang-Yi; Tsai, Chih-Hsiang; Chen, Hung-Ting; Pruski, Marek; Kobayashi, Takeshi

Issue Date:: 2015-03-31

OSTI Identifier:: 1177030

Assignee:: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, IA) CHO

Patent Number(s):: 8,993,793

Application Number:: 13/361,613

Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11358

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2012 Jan 30

Research Org:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org:: USDOE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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Diphenylammonium triflate (DPAT): efficient catalyst for esterification of carboxylic acids and for transesterification of carboxylic esters with nearly equimolar amounts of alcohols
journal, July 2000

Wakasugi, Kazunori; Misaki, Tomonori; Yamada, Kayo
Tetrahedron Letters, Vol. 41, Issue 27, p. 5249-5252
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(00)00821-2

Mesoporous organosilicas containing disulfide moiety: Synthesis and generation of sulfonic acid functionality through chemical transformation in the pore wall
journal, August 2008

Li, Congming; Liu, Jian; Zhang, Lei
Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, Vol. 113, Issue 1-3, p. 333-342
DOI: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2007.11.031

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