Issue 96, 2016

A waste to wealth approach through utilization of nano-ceramic tile waste as an accessible and inexpensive solid support to produce a heterogeneous solid acid nanocatalyst: to kill three birds with one stone

Abstract

Regarding the subject of waste products/materials, recycling or reusing has had a pivotal role on account of environmental and economic reasons. As a consequence, the essential task, nowadays, can be invention of new and practical pathways to reuse or even recycle them. In this framework, until now, recycling of some waste products such as tile wastes has not been taken into consideration; so, we were prompted by the possibility of recycling tile wastes in the catalytic direction. To this end, we use them as cost-effective, available, and nontoxic support materials for the heterogenization of sulfuric acid, in order to prepare the novel nano-ceramic tile waste supported sulfonic acid catalyst (nano-ceramic tile waste-SO3H or n-CTW-SA). This solid acid catalyst was well characterized through FT-IR, XRD, FE-SEM, EDX, TEM, TGA, BET, BJH, pH analysis and Hammett acidity function. The as-prepared nano-ceramic tile waste supported sulfonic acid catalyst proved to be an active heterogeneous catalyst in multicomponent reactions (MRCs) for the rapid and efficient one-pot synthesis of 2,4,5-trisubstituted and 1,2,4,5-tetrasubstituted imidazoles in high yields and selectivity. In comparison with some other homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts, nano-ceramic tile waste supported sulfonic acid displayed a greater activity. Moreover, being highly stable, inexpensive, accessible, retrievable, reusable, and having low toxicity are some other beneficial points of this catalyst.

Graphical abstract: A waste to wealth approach through utilization of nano-ceramic tile waste as an accessible and inexpensive solid support to produce a heterogeneous solid acid nanocatalyst: to kill three birds with one stone

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 May 2016
Accepted
11 Sep 2016
First published
21 Sep 2016

RSC Adv., 2016,6, 93963-93974

A waste to wealth approach through utilization of nano-ceramic tile waste as an accessible and inexpensive solid support to produce a heterogeneous solid acid nanocatalyst: to kill three birds with one stone

E. Kolvari and S. Zolfagharinia, RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 93963 DOI: 10.1039/C6RA11923A

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