Immobilized iron functionalised imidazolium-based ionic liquid: Solvent-free and recoverable heterogeneous catalytic application for the synthesis of amines under green conditions

Abstract

We reported solvent-free and recoverable heterogeneous iron functionalised imidazolium-based ionic liquid for the reduction of nitroarene derivatives in the presence of formic acid under greener conditions. Additionally, the experimental result shows that the iron complex could be an extremely resourceful, high rate and reusable catalyst for a different nitroarene substrate.

Keywords

• Formic acid
• Reduction
• Heterogeneous catalyst
• Iron complex
• Ionic liquid