The prevalence of solvent effects in heterogeneous catalysis in condensed media has motivated developing quantitative kinetic, and theoretical assessments of solvent structures and their interactions with reaction intermediates and transition states. 1111-67-7, Name is Cuprous thiocyanate, belongs to copper-catalyst compound, is a common compound. Quality Control of Cuprous thiocyanateIn an article, once mentioned the new application about 1111-67-7.
Ionic liquids (ILs) coupled with Ag+ or Cu+ salts to form a new kind of reactive absorbent have been studied to separate light olefin from paraffin recently. In this work, we prepared two halogen-free alkylimidazolium thiocyanate ILs with cheaper cuprous thiocyanate, i.e., [Bmim]SCN-CuSCN and [Emim]SCN-CuSCN (Bmim, 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium; Emim, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium) and investigated their absorption capability for propylene, propane and mixture of both at 1-7 bar and 298-318 K. The effects of operating parameter including cation nature, temperature, pressure, Cu+ concentration and reuse of absorbent were investigated. Propylene shows a chemical absorption while propane does a physical one, and increasing Cu+ concentration effectively improves the absorption capability for propylene and the selectivity of propylene/propane. [Bmim]SCN-CuSCN has higher absorption capability and selectivity for propylene than [Emim]SCN-CuSCN, e.g., [Bmim]SCN-CuSCN-1.5 M can absorb 0.12 mol of propylene per liter while 0.012 mol of propane per liter at 1 bar and 298 K, with a selectivity of 10, which is comparable to some other ILs-Ag+ salts and better than pure ILs. Such absorbents can be regenerated through temperature and pressure swing without remarkable activity loss. This work shows that alkylimidazolium thiocyanate ILs with Cu+ salts are promising reactive absorbents to separate propylene from propane.
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Copper catalysis in organic synthesis – NCBI,
Special Issue “Fundamentals and Applications of Copper-Based Catalysts”