A novel magnetic FSM-16 supported ionic liquid/Pd complex as a high performance and recyclable catalyst for the synthesis of pyrano[3,2-]chromenes.

In this work, FeO@FSM-16/IL-Pd was successfully designed and synthesized a new procedure of palladium(ii) complex immobilization onto magnetic FSM-16 using an ionic liquid, as a novel heterogeneous nanocatalyst. Multiple techniques were employed to characterize this magnetic nanocatalyst such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET), X-ray diffraction (XRD), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FE-SEM), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and Vibrating Sample Magnetometry (VSM). After complete characterization of the catalyst, its catalytic activity was used for the synthesis of pyrano[3,2-]chromene-3-carbonitriles the reaction of 4-hydroxycoumarin, aldehyde, and malononitrile under solvent-free conditions. Also, it can be recovered and reused several times without a significant decrease in its catalytic activity or palladium leaching.