Sustainable catalysis using palladium and gold compounds recovered from waste

贵金属催化是合成化学的基石，是制造我们所依赖的许多产品（药品、农用化学品、塑料等）所必需的，但其中许多金属，如黄金和钯，都是极其稀缺的。该项目旨在对废旧汽车催化转化器和电子垃圾中直接催化获得的钯和金回收产品进行估价。特别是钯介导的反应是有机合成化学中应用最广泛的转化之一。因此，该项目将把现有的低能耗、环保的回收过程与工业和学术界使用的许多最重要的催化转化联系起来。

Catalysis using precious metals is a cornerstone of synthetic chemistry and is needed to make many of the products (pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, plastics etc.) on which we all rely, yet many of these metals, such as gold and palladium are extremely scarce. This project aims to valorise palladium and gold recovery products obtained from spent automotive catalytic converters and e-waste directly in catalysis. Palladium-mediated reactions in particular are among the most widely used transformations in organic synthetic chemistry. This project will thus connect existing low-energy, environmentally-friendly recovery processes with many of the most important catalytic transformations used in industry and academia.