Solid-State Molecular Organometallic (SMOM) Chemistry: Transition-metal catalysed hydroformylation reactions in the molecular single-crystal

该项目的主要目标是在基础水平上了解固体状态下有机金属分子的反应性，然后将其用于工业相关的催化过程。阴离子框架的“酶样”封装微环境将为高选择性反应提供平台，并在空间上隔离活性阳离子金属中心，以延缓聚类失活。轻气态烯烃的氢甲酰化是一个理想的催化过程，因为它抓住了所有这些悬而未决的问题，是一个工业相关的化学转化。与溶液中催化的比较将突出分子固态环境的影响，特别是选择性、稳定性和流动反应器条件下的部署。本项目将通过在分子水平上对这些催化过程的研究，为利用固态分子有机金属化学进行多相催化的发展做出重大贡献。

The main goal of the project is to understand the reactivity of organometallic molecules in the solid state at a fundamental level and then harness this in an industrially relevant catalytic process. The “enzyme-like” encapsulated microenvironment of the anion framework will provide a platform for highly selective reactions, as well as spatially isolating reactive cationic metal centres to retard deactivation by clustering. The hydroformylation of light gaseous alkenes is an ideal catalytic process to study because it captures all of these open questions and is an industrially relevant chemical transformation. A comparison to catalysis in solution will highlight the effect of the molecular solid-state environment, in particular selectivity, stability, and deployment in flow-reactor conditions. This project will make a significant contribution to the development of heterogeneous catalysis using solid-state molecular organometallic chemistry by the study of these catalytic processes at a molecular level.