New Pincer Complex Catalysts for Carbon and Hydrocarbon Upgrading

催化是化工制造的基石，世界GDP的20%-30%依赖于催化过程。这一部门对未来的发展也将非常重要，提供从我们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。在这个项目中，将制造新的富含稀土的早期过渡金属催化剂(金属=4-6族)，以将含碳分子(气态烷烃、烯烃、CO、CO2)转化为附加值材料。催化剂将由‘PCP’型钳形配体支撑，这种配体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，并导致碳升级被催化执行。通过概念验证反应性，将建立已建立的结构-活性关系，从而进一步优化催化剂。钳形框架还将扩展到其他富稀土元素，如S块体和P块体金属。

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.