Designing bifunctional acid-base mesoporous hybrid catalysts for cascade reactions

[EN] Bifunctional mesoporous hybrid materials, containing both proton sponges and acid groups, have been prepared following different synthetic routes: co-condensation processes (sol-gel or micellar one-pot routes) or post-synthetic grafting of the organic functionalities. 1,8-Bis(dimethylamino)naphthalene (DMAN), a proton sponge with high pK(a), was used as an organic functional builder base and 3-mercaptopropyltriethoxysilane (MPTES) as a pendant precursor of sulfonic acids. The bifunctional hybrid materials were extensively characterized and were investigated as heterogeneous catalysts for various one-pot C-C bond-forming cascade reactions such as deacetalization-Knoevenagel condensation or deacetalization-nitroaldol (Henry) reaction.The authors thank the Spanish Government for financial support by Consolider-Ingenio MULTICAT CSD2009-00050, MAT2011-29020-C02-01 and Severo Ochoa Excellence Program SEV-2012-0267. 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