Simultaneous sonication assistance for the synthesis of pyrroloacridinones and its efficient catalyst HBF4 supported on uniform spherical silica nanoparticles.

Fluoroboric acid (HBF4) adsorbed on mesoporous silica nanoparticles of 600nm dimension was synthesized and characterized by N2 adsorption, HRTEM, EDX, XPS. The applicability of silica-HBF4 was probed through the sonication assisted synthesis of pyrroloacridinones in ecofriendly solvent ethanol. Standard leaching experiment was performed to show that the reaction was heterogeneous with this recyclable catalyst.