Powered by OpenAIRE graph
Found an issue? Give us feedback

ICIQ

Institut Català d'Investigació Química
Funder
Top 100 values are shown in the filters
Results number
arrow_drop_down
8 Projects, page 1 of 2
  • Funder: Swiss National Science Foundation Project Code: PBEZP2-127763
    more_vert
  • Funder: Swiss National Science Foundation Project Code: P2EZP2_162273
    more_vert
  • Funder: Swiss National Science Foundation Project Code: P1SKP2_168439
    more_vert
  • Funder: French National Research Agency (ANR) Project Code: ANR-13-BS07-0021
    Funder Contribution: 477,672 EUR

    Currently, intense research efforts are made towards the discovery of innovative catalysts. Among the strategies used, catalysts that can be tuned by non-covalent interactions are more and more investigated. Such supramolecular catalysts are designed in the aim of modifying the second coordination sphere of a metal center; an unsolvable challenge with classical covalent metal-catalysts. Up to now, most of the supramolecular catalysts are built by means of electrostatic interactions or metal-ligand bonds which are poorly dynamic. Moreover, the architectures developed so far are difficult to modulate because their functionalization requires tedious synthetic steps. Finally, these systems are not reversible due to the fact that their chemical or catalytic properties are not modified by changes of their environment. Here, we describe how nanotubes and nanohelices, based on the hydrogen-bonded assemblies of bis-ureas and benzene 1,3,5-tricarboxamide (BTA) monomers, can constitute a new class of supramolecular catalysts. These assemblies are dynamic (since based on hydrogen bonds), functionalizable (by simple chemical modification of the monomer) and reversible (their architecture varies according to the concentration and the temperature among other parameters). By means of these unique properties, we will demonstrate that the self-association can be used to modulate the electronic, steric and chiral properties of a metal catalyst. Our catalysts will be statistical copolymers including phosphine-functionalized and classical bis-urea or BTA monomers. We plan to apply this system in three catalytic reactions: the asymmetric hydrogenation of olefins, the hydroformylation of olefins and the carbonylation of epoxides. In all cases, the same ligands will be used and a common d8-catalytic resting state will be involved in all the catalytic experiments. An additional feature of our system is the possibility to design an allosteric catalyst i.e. with catalytic properties that can be modified along the time by adding a cofactor or modifying the environment. The properties of these nanotubes and nanohelices (reversibility, dynamism and functionalization) and their use for the construction of several types of catalysts will constitute a breakthrough in the domain and thus deserve an urgent and intense investigation.

    more_vert
  • Funder: Swiss National Science Foundation Project Code: P2EZP2_181598
    more_vert
  • chevron_left
  • 1
  • 2
  • chevron_right

Do the share buttons not appear? Please make sure, any blocking addon is disabled, and then reload the page.

Content report
No reports available
Funder report
No option selected
arrow_drop_down

Do you wish to download a CSV file? Note that this process may take a while.

There was an error in csv downloading. Please try again later.