Several ionene bromides were used as reagents for the displacement of decyl methanesulfonate into 1-bromodecane. They were very reactive when adsorbed by silica gel. The enhanced activities of the ionenes were hardly dependent on their structures and molecular weights but decreased gradually with increasing the amount of ionene adsorbed by silica gel. Ionene chlorides exhibited a similar enhancement of reactivity when adsorbed by silica gel. However, unlike the ionenes, a large increase in activity due to adsorption was not observed with pendant-type polycations such as poly(4-vinylpyridinium bromide) and poly[(4-vinylbenzyl)tributylammonium chloride]. The silica gel-supported ionenes also exhibited excellent catalytic activities for solid–liquid–solid triphase substitution reactions, particularly for the reactions between 1-bromodecane and such inorganic salts as consisted of relatively hard-basic nucleophilic anions.

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