Author(s)

Mohd Bismillah Ansari, Eun-Young Jeong, Sang-Eon Park

Laboratory of Nano-Green Catalysis and Nano Center for Fine Chemicals Fusion Technology, Department of Chemistry, Inha University, Incheon, Korea.

Tirazine based microporous polymeric (TMP) network was found to be an efficient metal-free catalyst for the epoxidation of styrene. The reactions were performed in water as an environmentally benign medium using H2O2 as a green oxidant at ambient temperature. The reaction afforded higher yield with 90% conversion of styrene and 98% selectivity to styrene oxide in 6 h. The triazine based microporous polymeric network can be readily recovered and reused up to 4 cycles without significant loss in catalytic activity and selectivity.

Triazine Microporous Polydendritic Network; Metal-Free Catalyst; Aqueous Medium; Epoxidation; Styrene

M. Ansari, E. Jeong and S. Park, "Styrene Epoxidation in Aqueous over Triazine-Based Microporous Polymeric Network as a Metal-Free Catalyst," Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Vol. 2 No. 1, 2012, pp. 1-7. doi: 10.4236/gsc.2012.21001.