Nickel-phenanthroline Complex Supported on Mesoporous Carbon as a Catalyst for Carboxylation under CO2 Atmosphere

Carbon dioxide is a highly potential renewable C1 source for synthesis of fine chemicals. Utilization CO2 in carboxylation reactions requires catalysts, such as: nickel complex activation. However, the use homogeneous catalysts reaction still less efficient due to difficulty separating product and catalyst from mixture. Therefore, it necessary heterogenize solid support as mesoporous carbon. In this report, carbon (MC) prepared phloroglucinol formaldehyde through soft template method was used Ni-phenanthroline (Ni-phen). The characterized by Fourier Transform Infra Red (FT-IR), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscope - Energy Dispersive (SEM-EDX), Surface Area Analyzer (SAA). result SAA characterization showed that pore diameter MC 6.7 nm Ni-phen/MC 5.1 which indicates materials have meso-size pores. material then heterogeneous phenylacetylene under an ambient pressure. were carried out several variations conditions temperature, time types. Based on results reaction, best obtained at 25 °C 8 h using catalyst. Copyright © 2021 Authors, Published BCREC Group. This open access article CC BY-SA License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).