Imobilização de complexos de rutênio em matriz de sílica mesoporosa

Abstract

In recent years, mesoporous silica has attracted considerable scientifical and industrial interest. This material possess physical and chemical properties, which makes it to be used in a variety of applications. These properties include thermal stability, mechanical strength and low solubility, which makes it an ideal matrix support for catalysts. The heterogeneous catalysis has the advantage of separating catalyst from the reaction medium, which justifies the interest in heterogeneous catalysts. Coordination compounds are widely used in homogeneous catalytic processes, based on this there is a growing interest in producing catalytic systems onto heterogeneous silica matrices making very interesting materials. In this work, ruthenium complexes, [RuIICl2(dppb)(PPh3)] and [RuIIICl3(dppb)(OH2)] were synthesized and immobilized onto mesoporous silica matrices modified with aminopropyl and bipyridine groups forming the systems known as Si-apts-bipy-RuIICl2dppb and Si-apts-[bipy-RuIIICl2dppb]Cl-. These systems were characterized by spectroscopic techniques (FTIR, NMR and electronic absorption), electrochemical (cyclic and square wave voltammetry), thermogravimetry (TG), isotherms of adsorption / desorption of N2 and elemental analysis (CHN). The N2 adsorption isotherms using BJH (Barret, Joyner and Halenda) method for matrices shows the synthesized material has characteristics of micro and mesoporous with predominantly mesopore size. Si-apts-bipy-RuIICl2dppb system was the only one that showed catalytic activity in the reaction of hydrogenation of acetophenone with a yield of 53%. The development of catalysts in solid matrices is an area of great interest, which has justified this work.