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Core–Shell Dispersed Polymeric Ionic Liquids as Efficient Heterogeneous Catalyst for CO2 Conversion into Cyclic Carbonates

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Core–shell polyionic liquids were successfully constructed to reduce the amount of bulk ionic liquids and realize heterogeneous catalysis in the reaction of CO2 conversion into carbonate. The core–shell polyionic liquid structure is formed by one-step surface polymerization with cheap and readily available SiO2 as the carrier. By optimizing the ratio of ionic liquid monomer to SiO2, PIL@SiO2(1:1.5) of high activity and low ionic liquid dosage was successfully obtained, and only 40% of bulk ionic liquid dosage was used to achieve high activity of quasi-homogeneous phase (PO conversion 95.5%). Combined with the characterization and mechanism study, it was found that at an appropriate ratio (1:1.5), good mesoporous structure and a certain extent dispersion of polyionic liquid can make the active site better dispersed to facilitate the simultaneous activation of multiple molecules, which is the reason for the high activity. In addition, the core–shell structure also has good substrate suitability and recyclability stability. This study provides good ideas for the development of low-cost heterogeneous ionic liquid catalysts.

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We sincerely acknowledge the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22078329, 21908226, 22178356, 21890763, 22008242).“Transformational Technologies for Clean Energy and Demonstration”, Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Grant No. XDA 21030500, the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province (No.2020B0101370002).

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  1. Henan Engineering Research Center of Catalytic Reaction College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China

    Shuaifei Liu & Xinqi Ma

  2. CAS Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Shuaifei Liu, Qian Su, Mengqian Fu, Lili Deng, Yichao Wang, Li Dong, Yifan Liu & Weiguo Cheng

  3. Advanced Energy Science and Technology Guangdong Laboratory, Huizhou, 516003, Guangdong, China

    Qian Su, Li Dong, Yifan Liu & Weiguo Cheng

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Liu, S., Su, Q., Fu, M. et al. Core–Shell Dispersed Polymeric Ionic Liquids as Efficient Heterogeneous Catalyst for CO2 Conversion into Cyclic Carbonates. Catal Lett 153, 2429–2442 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-022-04103-2

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