Issue 24, 2014
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Chemical Communications

Microwave assisted synthesis of cyclic carbonates from olefins with sodium bicarbonates as the C1 source†

Xiaoqing Yang,ab   Jie Wu,c   Xianwen Mao,a   Timothy F. Jamison*c  and  T. Alan Hatton*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
E-mail: tahatton@mit.edu

b College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

c Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
E-mail: tfj@mit.edu

Abstract

An effective transformation of alkenes into cyclic carbonates has been achieved using NaHCO3 as the C1 source in acetone–water under microwave heating, with selectivities and yields significantly surpassing those obtained using conventional heating.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC00252K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
11 Jan 2014
Accepted
05 Feb 2014
First published
06 Feb 2014

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 3245-3248

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Microwave assisted synthesis of cyclic carbonates from olefins with sodium bicarbonates as the C1 source

X. Yang, J. Wu, X. Mao, T. F. Jamison and T. A. Hatton, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 3245 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC00252K

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