Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters, Vol.84, No.1, 175-182, 2005
Kinetic studies on the performance of immobilized quaternary ammonium salt catalysts for the addition of carbon dioxide to phenyl glycidyl ether
The addition of carbon dioxide to phenyl glycidyl ether (PGE) was investigated in a semi-batch reactor, using immobilized quaternary ammonium chloride catalysts. Five different catalysts were prepared with the following supports : (1) soluble poly(ST-co-VBC) [C1], (2) insoluble poly(ST-DVB-VBC) [C2], (3) macroporous poly(ST-DVB-VBC) [0], (4) poly(ST-co-VBC)-MMT [C4] (5) modified MCM-41 [C5]. The addition of carbon dioxide to PGE can be considered as a pseudo-first order process with respect to the concentration of PGE. The pseudo-first order rate constant for the catalysts decreased in the series C1>C3>C2>C4>C5. The activation energy for C1 to C5 catalysts was 8.6, 20.9, 19.9, 23.9, and 26.8 kJ/mol, respectively. The immobilized catalysts can be reused in least 4 successive runs without any considerable loss of their initial reactivities.