Abstract:
In this paper, a series of mesoporous melem materials were prepared from melamine by solid-phase reaction using nano-silica (SiO
2) as the template. The mesoporous melem materials with high specific surface area (40−92 m
2/g) and pore volume (0.179−0.407 cm
3/g) were obtained by adjusting the ratio of SiO
2 template and melamine. The obtained melem was used as catalyst for the cycloaddition reaction between BDODGE and CO
2. The results showed that the catalytic activity was greatly improved with the increase of specific surface area of the catalysts. The catalyst mp-CN-450-2 showed the best performance. After 20 h reaction at 130 ºC, 2.0 MPa, 99.3% of BDODGE conversion and 99.5% of cyclic carbonate selectivity were acquired, respectively.