Electrostatic catalysis from single-molecule events to macroscopic systems

从单分子事件到宏观系统的静电催化

• 批准号: DP190100735
• 负责人: A/Prof Simone Ciampi
• 金额: $ 21.77万
• 依托单位: Curtin University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2022-12-15
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP190100735
• 关键词: Electrostatic; catalysis; single; molecule; events

Electrostatics has important applications in day-to-day technologies, from recycling plastics to photocopying, but the exploration of how static charges affect chemical bonds and bonding is still in its infancy. This project aims to demonstrate the experimental links between the magnitude and polarity of an external electric field and chemical rates, expanding our understanding of chemical reactivity and transforming our view of catalysis. By investigating the role of static electricity over systems selected from different sub-disciplines of chemistry, the project will derive the ground and selection rules for reactivity and selectivity by electrostatics. The project is expected to show that for chemical reactions of practical and conceptual value a specific catalyst can be replaced by a generic electric field stimulus, an invisible catalyst, enabling cleaner and cheaper opportunities that current technologies cannot fulfil.

静电在日常技术中有着重要的应用，从塑料回收到复印，但对静电荷如何影响化学键和键合的探索仍处于起步阶段。该项目旨在展示外电场的大小和极性与化学速率之间的实验联系，扩展我们对化学反应性的理解，并改变我们对催化的看法。通过研究从化学的不同分支学科中选择的系统中静电的作用，该项目将得出静电反应性和选择性的基础和选择规则。该项目预计将表明，对于具有实际和概念价值的化学反应，一种特定的催化剂可以被一种通用的电场刺激、一种看不见的催化剂所取代，从而实现目前技术无法实现的更清洁、更便宜的机会。