MCM-41 immobilized phenanthrolinium
dibromide (phen-MCM-Br2) was easily prepared and
applied as an efficient heterogeneous catalyst for aza-Michael addition of aromatic amines toa,b-unsaturated
nitriles and nitro compounds in water. The catalyst was
characterized by CHN, TGA, FT-IR, SEM, EDAX, XRD,
BET, and TEM. It could be simply recovered and reused
several times without significant loss of catalytic activity