Periodic Mesoporous Organosilica with Ionic Liquid type Framework (PMO-IL): Innovative FunctionalMaterials for High Performance Immobilized Catalyst Systems

The last years of 20th century have witnessed with two dramatic developments in the field ofchemistry and material chemistry. In one hand ionic liquids (ILs) were introduced and foundwidespread application as environmentally non-volatile solvents in variety of area fromcatalysis to separation science. On the other hand, a new class of hybrid organic-inorganicmaterials called periodic mesoporous organosilicas (PMOs) built from bridge organosilicaprecursors, [(R O)3Si-R-Si(OR )3], wherein organic group R is an integral part of themesoporous walls was discovered in 1999. In this talk, I am going to present our challenges incombining these two concepts which resulted in the discovery of a new class of innovativefunctional materils so-called periodic mesoporous organosilicas with ionic liquid framework(PMO-IL). These innovative materials have thus far successfully employed in severalimportant chemical applications, thus enabling us to extend the concept of bulk ionic liquidchemistry into the wall ionic liquid chemistry inside the hybrid mesoporous material world.