Inert atmosphere glove box workstation

这个建议涉及惰性气氛工作站或手套箱的获取。手套箱工作站允许在安全条件下制备，储存和分析非常活跃的化学品。例如，该集团制造的一些化学品，或它们的起始材料，在暴露于手套箱内惰性氮气氛之外的空气时会自发着火。我小组的学生和研究人员制造的化合物将被用作引发剂或催化剂，用可再生原料（原料）制造新的聚合物材料（塑料）。大多数现代塑料都是由石油化工原料制成的，这些原料很快就会枯竭，或者价格昂贵得令人望而却步。我们的研究旨在以更节能、更高产的方式改善这些资源的使用。我们还使用可从可再生资源（如植物）或从废物（如二氧化碳）中廉价获得的替代原料。简而言之，我们能不能用从植物中提取的化学物质制造新的塑料，同时至少利用一部分在大气中积累的二氧化碳？这些原料的问题是，尤其是二氧化碳，它们非常不活泼，需要强制条件（如长反应时间，非常高的温度或压力）才能进行化学反应。使用含金属催化剂是使使用这些原料的过程更加快速和节能的一种方法。由于这些催化剂必须非常活泼，它们必须在无氧和无水的特殊条件下处理，否则会破坏催化剂。手套箱是世界各地催化剂开发实验室必不可少的设备。在发现新的催化剂的过程中，化学家可以满足社会对高质量生活的持续渴望，同时通过新的低能耗工艺和替代原料实现可持续的未来。该研究对加拿大有限的石油化工资源的高效、可控开发具有重要意义。

This proposal concerns the acquisition of an inert atmosphere workstation, or glove box. A glove box workstation allows for the preparation, storage and analysis of very reactive chemicals under safe conditions. For example, some of the chemicals made by the group, or their starting materials, will spontaneously catch fire upon exposure to air outside of the inert nitrogen atmosphere within the glove box.  The compounds made by students and researchers in my group will be used as initiators or catalysts for making new polymeric materials (plastics) from renewable starting materials (feedstocks). Most modern plastics are made from petrochemical sources, which are quickly becoming depleted or prohibitively expensive. Our research seeks ways to improve our use of these resources in a more energy efficient and higher yielding manner. We are also using alternative starting materials that can be obtained cheaply from renewable sources, such as plants, or from waste products, such as carbon dioxide (CO2). In short, can we make new plastics from chemicals obtained from plants, as well as use at least some of the CO2 that is accumulating in our atmosphere?  The problem with many of these starting materials, especially CO2, is that they are very unreactive and require forcing conditions (such as long reaction times, very high temperatures or pressures) in order for us to do chemistry with them. The use of metal-containing catalysts is one way to make the processes using these feedstocks more rapid and energy efficient. Since these catalysts must be very reactive, they must be handled under special conditions free from oxygen and water, which could destroy the catalyst.  A glove box is an essential piece of equipment in catalyst development laboratories worldwide. In discovering new catalysts, chemists can meet society's continuing desire for a high quality of life whilst enabling a sustainable future via new lower energy processes and alternative feedstocks. This research is also of importance in exploiting Canada's finite petrochemical resources in energy efficient and controlled ways.