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Amphiphilic porous polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) incorporated polyoxometalate-paired polymeric hybrids: interfacial catalysts for epoxidation reactions†

Yan Leng,*a   Jiwei Zhao,a   Pingping Jianga  and  Jun Wangb  

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a The Key Laboratory of Food Colloids and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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b State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210009, China

Abstract

A new strategy to fabricate amphiphilic polyoxometalate (POM)-paired polymeric hybrids via a free radical polymerization process using polyhedral oligomeric vinylsilsesquioxanes (POSS) and ionic liquids as the building block, followed by ion exchange was designed. The obtained hybrids were demonstrated to be porous materials with excellent amphiphilic properties, and can behave as efficient interfacial catalysts for the epoxidation of alkenes with H2O2 by stabilizing Pickering emulsions. The catalysts could be recovered by centrifugation and reused with no appreciable deactivation. The unique amphiphilic porous structure is revealed to be responsible for the catalysts' excellent performances in the epoxidation reaction by accelerating the mass transfer.

Graphical abstract: Amphiphilic porous polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) incorporated polyoxometalate-paired polymeric hybrids: interfacial catalysts for epoxidation reactions

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4RA16956E
Article type
Paper
Submitted
24 Dec 2014
Accepted
05 Feb 2015
First published
05 Feb 2015

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 17709-17715

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Amphiphilic porous polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) incorporated polyoxometalate-paired polymeric hybrids: interfacial catalysts for epoxidation reactions

Y. Leng, J. Zhao, P. Jiang and J. Wang, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 17709 DOI: 10.1039/C4RA16956E

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