New Pincer Complex Catalysts for Carbon and Hydrocarbon Upgrading

用于碳和碳氢化合物升级的新型 Pincer 复合催化剂

• 批准号: 2733898
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Imperial College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2733898
• 关键词: New; Pincer; Complex; Catalysts; Carbon

Catalysis forms the cornerstone of chemical manufacturing, with 20-30% of the world's GDP relying on catalytic process. This sector will also be hugely important for future development, providing everything from the materials we need for sustainable growth to chemical intermediates for medicines and vaccines. In this project new earth abundant early transition metal catalysts (metal = group 4-6) will be made to convert carbon containing molecules (gaseous alkanes, alkenes, CO, CO2) to value added materials. The catalysts will be supported by 'PCP'-type pincer ligands which allow for the careful tuning of the metal centre's electronic and steric properties. This will in turn lead to the optimisation of the reactivity complexes and lead to the carbon upgrading being performed catalytically. With proof-of-concept reactivity established structure-activity relationships will be developed, leading to further catalyst optimisation. The pincer framework will also be extended to other earth abundant elements such as s-block and p-block metals.

催化是化学制造业的基石，全球20-30%的GDP依赖于催化过程。该行业对未来的发展也将非常重要，提供从可持续增长所需的材料到药品和疫苗的化学中间体的一切。在该项目中，将制造新地球丰富的前过渡金属催化剂（金属=第4-6族），以将含碳分子（气态烷烃、烯烃、CO、CO2）转化为增值材料。催化剂将由“PCP”型钳形配体支撑，这允许仔细调整金属中心的电子和空间性质。这将反过来导致反应性络合物的优化，并导致催化地进行碳升级。通过概念验证反应性，将建立结构-活性关系，从而进一步优化催化剂。钳形框架也将扩展到地球上其他丰富的元素，如s区和p区金属。