Molecular Recognition in Chiral Ionic Liquids as Basis for the Design and Synthesis of New Enantioselective Heterogeneous Catalysts and Membranes

可作为镜像存在的分子，每个分子具有不同的(例如，有益的和有毒的)性质，支撑着制药工业和越来越多的新的高选择性农药和香料/香料。 目前的商业途径通常将镜像混合在一起，然后需要费力地分离。这些路线效率低下，造成浪费，资源利用率低。 我们的目标是为这些问题创造解决方案，使用受支持的特殊、新型盐类薄膜，这些薄膜在室温下是液体，并且具有其他不同寻常的化学性质，使它们非常适合实现有效的转化。

Molecules that can exist as mirror images, each with different, e.g., beneficial vs. toxic properties, underpin the pharmaceutical industry and increasingly new highly selective pesticides, and flavours/fragrances. Current commercial pathways often make mixtures of the mirror images that then need to be separated laboriously. These routes are inefficient, creating waste and use resources poorly. We aim to create solutions for these problems, using supported thin films of special, new types of salts that are liquid at room temperature, and which have other unusual chemical properties that make them ideally suited to enable efficient conversions.