International Conference on “Applied Nanotechnology and Nanoscience”(ICANN 2017) © 2017| All right reserved 163 Int. Res. J. of Science & Engineering, 2017; Special Issue A1 : 163-166 SJIF Impact Factor 4.11 ISSN: 2322-0015 UGC Approved Journal No. 63628 RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Triton B mediated green protocol for epoxide cleavage Zade RN 1 , Mude KM 2 , Mude BM 3 , More PS 4 and Patange AN 5 1 Department of Chemistry, Siddharth College, Fort, Mumbai- 400001, India, 2 Department of Physics, Bhavan’s College, Andheri (W) -400058, India, 3 Department of Physics, Ramnarain Ruia College, Matunga (E) -400019, India, 4 Department of Physics, Mithibai College, Vile Parle (W), Mumbai- 400056, India, 5 Department of Chemistry, Bhavan’s College, Andheri (W) -400058, India Corresponding author email: rzade07@yahoo.co.in Manuscript Details ABSTRACT Available online on http://www.irjse.in ISSN: 2322-0015 Editor: Dr. Arvind Chavhan Cite this article as: Zade RN, Mude KM, Mude BM, More PS and Patange AN. Triton B mediated green protocol for epoxide cleavage, Int. Res. Journal of Science & Engineering, December 2017; Special Issue A1 : 163-166. © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Ionic liquids are liquids at room temperature (RTIL) and have high thermal stability, low vapour pressure, immiscibility with organic products, high kinetic control. They are used for synthesis, catalysis and extraction. Present study encompasses use of Triton B (IL) for epoxide cleavage to produce various alcohols. Characterization of product was done using H-NMR, C- NMR and GCMS. So, this route provides simple, efficient, environmentally benign way of preparing 1, 2 - methoxy alcohol from epoxide. After carrying out many reactions using Triton B as catalyst and reaction medium, it can concluded that this ionic liquid is recyclable, reusable reaction medium and catalyst for C-O, C-C bond formation and epoxide cleavage. Keywords: Ionic Liquid, epoxide, Triton B. INTRODUCTION Organic synthesis has it’s place in classical and applied research, it is constantly encountered with certain problems of separation of materials other than products, huge solvent usage, protection and deprotection of functional groups, low absolute yield etc. These limitations are grave in synthesis of fine and specialty chemicals. [1-2] So there is a growing need for more environmentally acceptable processes in the chemical industry. This trend has become known as ‘Green Chemistry’.