Highly Effective Supported Ionic Liquid-Phase (SILP) Catalysts: Characterization and Application to the Hydrosilylation Reaction

Abstract

Organosilicon compounds, because of their unique properties, are widely used in a variety of organic processes, and thus the constant improvement of current methods is still needed. We present slurry-phase hydrosilylation reactions using novel supported ionic liquid-phase (SILP) catalysts containing rhodium complexes immobilized in four phosphonium ionic liquids (ILs) on silica support. The obtained new SILP catalysts were analyzed by infrared technique, low-temperature nitrogen physisorption at 77 K, and scanning electronic microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy to provide structural information on these materials. Moreover, the catalytic activity in hydrosilylation reactions was evaluated and compared with the catalytic activity of rhodium catalysts dissolved in the same ILs when using a biphasic reaction system (IL/catalyst as one phase and mixture of substrates as a second phase). The rhodium-based SILP catalysts proved to be much more efficient than when used in a biphasic system compos...