Oxidative carbonylation of aniline with polymer-immobilized alkylselenites

I&EC 60

Eun Hee Jeon, zinnia18@paran.com, Je Seung Lee, leejs70@khu.ac.kr, Hoon Sik Kim, khs2004@khu.ac.kr, and Minserk Cheong, mcheong@khu.ac.kr. Department of Chemistry, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, South Korea
Polymer-immobilized selenites, poly(1-ethyl-3-vinylimidazolium) methylselenite and poly(1-ethyl-4-vinylpyridinium) methylselenite were synthesized and tested for their activities in the oxidative carbonylation of aniline. FT-IR (NMR) and DSC studies clearly showed that methylselenites are tightly immobilized on the imidazolium and pyridinium polymers. These polymer-supported heterogeneous catalysts exhibited comparable activities to their corresponding homogeneous analogues, 1-ethyl-3-vinylimidazolium methylselenite and 4-vinylpyridinium methylselenite. The catalyst recycle tests showed that the immobilized catalysts can be reused at least up to five times without serious deactivation.