A nanostructured bifunctional acid–base catalyst resin formed by lyotropic liquid crystal monomers
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Abstract
An ordered, nanoporous polymer resin was prepared from the self-assembly of lyotropic liquid crystal monomers and employed as a heterogeneous, bifunctional catalyst. This material contains antagonistic acid and base sites in the periodic nanopores and efficiently catalyzes a model tandem reaction (i.e., the deacetalization–nitroaldol reaction between benzaldehyde dimethyl acetal and nitromethane to yield β-nitrostyrene) with excellent product selectivity. This lyotropic liquid crystal-based solid catalyst represents one of the few examples of polymeric tandem catalysts synthesized by a “bottom-up” strategy that imparts control over the stoichiometry of acidic and basic monomers and is the only reported example of a lyotropic liquid crystal-based polymer that contains mutually incompatible catalytic groups. Furthermore, this heterogeneous catalyst is highly active, exhibiting a turnover frequency for this tandem test reaction that exceeds other reported catalytic polymeric materials.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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