Abstract
Cardanol (a mixture of phenols with C15 aliphatic unsaturated chain in meta position, manufactured from cashew nut shell liquids) is an abundant and till now practically waste natural material. An important way leading to its utilization as a renewable source of valuable phenolic compounds is represented by olefin metathesis.Quaternary ammonium tagged Ru complex of Hoveyda-Grubbs type immobilized on SBA-15 mesoporous molecular sieve by non-covalent interactions was proved as a very efficient catalyst for cardanol metathesis under mild conditions (35°C, toluene, 0.1 mol% of catalyst). The catalyst was used also in cross-metathesis of cardanol with alkenes (1-hexene, 1-heptene, 3-hexene, 4-octene) and unsaturated esters (methyl acrylate, 1,4-diacetoxybutene-2) under high yields of cross-metathesis products. The catalysts exhibited low leaching (from 0.2ppm to 2.9ppm Ru in products) and can be used in a continuous flow reactor (cumulative TON=2500).
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