Ionic liquids as a reusable media for copper catalysis. Green access to alkenes using catalytic olefination reaction

It was demonstrated that ionic liquids are superb recyclable media for copper catalyzed reactions using catalytic olefination reaction as an example. As a result a novel green access to the halogenoalkenes was elaborated. Possibility to perform up to five reaction cycles without catalyst leaching and decreasing of the yield was demonstrated. A number of various ionic liquids was screened and 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([bmim] [BF4]) was found the solvent with highest efficiency. Mild conditions, high atom economy comparing to other known methods, low amounts of wastes and possibility to recover ionic liquid are the advantages of the proposed method.

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