Center for Enabling New Technologies through Catalysis

由华盛顿大学领导的催化新技术中心（CENTC）得到了美国国家科学基金会化学部（NSF Division of Chemistry）第二阶段化学键中心（CBC）的支持。CENTC汇集了来自美国各地的16名研究人员，致力于开发高效、廉价和环保的方法，通过激活强键来合成有机材料。基于使用过渡金属选择性激活和功能化强化学键的新方法有可能彻底改变化学品生产，从大规模批量工艺到精细化学合成，例如发生在制药工业中。第二阶段CBC正在进行范围广泛的项目，包括氢胺化、氧化、碳氢功能化、烷烃复分解、燃料电池研究、使用生物质作为原料和酶化学。中心开展的工作通过培训各级学生产生了广泛的影响。此外，来自美国各地的高中教师正在参加该中心，并帮助制作关于该中心研究进展和影响的报告和录象。该中心有一个工业附属项目，允许将中心的研究成果直接与工业交流，并将其转化为现实世界的应用。该中心支持的项目侧重于经济和环境上的绿色化工、石油、制药和材料生产，因此具有巨大的潜力，可以提高美国的竞争力，并通过提高能源独立性来加强我们的国家安全。

The Center for Enabling New Technologies through Catalysis, or CENTC, led by the University of Washington, is supported by an award from the NSF Division of Chemistry as a Phase II Chemical Bonding Center, or CBC. CENTC brings together a group of sixteen investigators from across the United States to work on the development of efficient, inexpensive and environmentally friendly methods of synthesizing organic materials by way of activation of strong bonds. New methodology based on using transition metals to selectively activate and functionalize strong chemical bonds has the potential to revolutionize the production of chemicals from large scale bulk processes to fine chemical synthesis, such as occurs in the pharmaceutical industry. A broad scope of projects is being pursued in this Phase II CBC including hydroamination, oxidation, C-H functionalization, alkane metathesis, fuel cell research, the use of biomass as feedstocks and enzymatic chemistry.The work occuring at CENTC is having a broad impact through the training of students at all levels. In addition, high school teachers from various parts of the United States are participating in the center and helping in the production of presentations and videos on the advances and implications of CENTC research. The center has an industrial affiliates program which allows for direct communication of CENTC research results to industry where it can be converted into real-world applications. Projects supported by the center focus on greening -- economically and environmentally -- chemical, petroleum, pharmaceutical and material production and thus have significant potential to increase US competitiveness and to enhance our national security through an increase in energy independence.