title: Aluminum-Mediated Formation of Cyclic Carbonates: Benchmarking Catalytic Performance Metrics.
abstract: We report a comparative study on the activity of a series of fifteen binary catalysts derived from various reported aluminum-based complexes. A benchmarking of their initial rates in the coupling of various terminal and internal epoxides in the presence of three different nucleophilic additives was carried out, providing for the first time a useful comparison of activity metrics in the area of cyclic organic carbonate formation. These investigations provide a useful framework for how to realistically valorize relative reactivities and which features are important when considering the ideal operational window of each binary catalyst system.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Av. Països Catalans 16, 43007, Tarragona, Spain.
authors.forename: Jeroen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rintjema
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Av. Països Catalans 16, 43007, Tarragona, Spain.|Catalan Institute of Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Pg. Lluís Companys 23, 08010, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Arjan W
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-7402-4764
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Kleij
mesh_terms: D000535:Aluminum / Q000737:chemistry; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000737:chemistry; D002254:Carbonates / Q000737:chemistry; D002384:Catalysis; D004852:Epoxy Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D013696:Temperature; D000090022:Chemometrics / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D000535:Aluminum; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D002254:Carbonates; D004852:Epoxy Compounds
keywords: aluminum; benchmarking; carbon dioxide; cyclic organic carbonates; homogeneous catalysis