Acetalization of glycol with carbonyl compounds was carded out catalyzed by cupric p-toluenesulfonate. These carbonyl compounds included cyclohexanone, propionoaldehyde, n-butyraldehyde, /so-butyraldehyde, n-valeraldehyde, benzaldehyde and butanone. Satisfactory results were obtained： the conversions of these carbonyl compounds were more than 90%, the selectivities were higher than 99.1%, only 0.1% mole ratio of catalyst to substrate and 90 min were sufficient in most cases. The catalyst and products were separated easily by phase separation.
Promotion of ionic liquid, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide (emimBr), to the synthesis of dimethyl car-bonate (DMC) from methanol and carbon dioxide in the presence of potassium carbonate and less amount of methyl iodide under mild conditions was investigated. The results showed that the high selectivity and raised yield of DMC was achieved due to the addition of emimBr in the reaction system. And effect of several reaction conditions such as temperature, pressure and amount of emimBr was discussed.
Aliphatic aldehydes such as ethanal, propanal, n-butanal, isobutyraldehyde, n-valeraldehyde, isovaleraldehyde, n-hexanal and n-octanal were converted into the corresponding 2.4,6-trialkyl-1,3,5-trioxanes through cyclotrimerization in the presence of the ferric chloride based ionic liquids at room temperature without solvent in high selectivity. The effects of different ionic liquids, acidity of ionic liquids and temperature on cyclotrimerization were also studied. The results showed that the ferric chloride based ionic liquids （apparent molar fraction of FeCl3 （x（FeCl3）= 0.62）） were a kind of efficient catalysts for the cyclotrimerization of aliphatic aldehyde which could be separated conveniently from the reaction mixture and recycled without loss of catalytic activity. The conversion of isobutyraldehyde and the selectivity to 2,4,6-triisopropyl-1,3,5-trioxane were 91.1% and 99.8% respectively under optimum reaction condition （isobutyraldehyde 25.0 g, [Et3NH]Cl/FeCl3 （x（FeCl3）=0.62） 1.0 g, 25 ℃ for 1 h）.
The synthesis of 2, 4, 6-triisopropyl-1, 3, 5-trioxane with high yield and desirable selec- tivity from solvent-free cyclotrimerization of isobutyraldehyde catalyzed by ionic liquids was reported in this work.
Mesoporous molecular sieves Al-MSU-S has been prepared from the precursor of zeolite Y using ionic liquids 1-hexadecane-3-methylimidazolium bromide （CMIMB） as a template in basic medium, which exhibited larger pore diameter, pore volume and surface area than that synthesized using cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide （CTAB） template.
