（graft and co-condensation）Transesterification reactions over morphology controlled amino-functionalized SBA-15 catalysts.pdfVIP

Available online at Catalysis Communications 9 (2008) 158–163 /locate/catcom Transesterification reactions over morphology controlled amino-functionalized SBA-15 catalysts S. Saravanamurugan, Sujandi, Dae-Soo Han, Jeong-Boon Koo, Sang-Eon Park * Laboratory of Nano-Green Catalysis, Nano Center for Fine Chemicals Fusion Technology, Department of Chemistry, Inha University, Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea Received 29 January 2007; received in revised form 2 June 2007; accepted 4 June 2007 Available online 9 June 2007 Abstract The amino-functionalized SBA-15 (NH2-SBA-15) catalysts have been synthesized by different approaches such as direct co-conden- sation, prehydrolysis of sodium metasilicate, and post synthetic-grafting methods in order to get different morphologies by using the amphiphilic triblock copolymer, pluronic P123 as a surfactant and 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) as a precursor of functional groups under a strong acidic condition. The functionalized materials were confirmed with X-ray diffraction (XRD), N2 gas adsorption/ desorption studies, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and the amount of amino-groups was evaluated by TGA analyses. Catalytic transesterification reactions of diethylmalonate with various aliphatic and aromatic alcohols were investigated over the amino-functionalized SBA-15 catalysts. Among the functionalized catalysts, the material synthesized via direct co- condensation method which had short channeled hexagonal platelet morphology exh