Seminar "Catalyst Design with Solid-supported Ligands and Metals" by Prof. Masaya Sawamura, Hokkaido University

Abstract

To produce highly active catalysts that enable challenging organic reactions, various phosphines were immobilized on solid supports. The new solid-immobilized phosphines thus obtained were used as platforms to construct novel metal–ligand systems that allow efficient formation of coordinatively unsaturated highly reactive metal species. This lecture will present design, synthesis and utilities of a silica-supported cage-shaped phosphine Silica-SMAP. Extension of the concept toward using polystyrens as solid supports will also be presented.