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May 16, 2024

CRC 1333 Minisymposium on "Catalysis under Confinement"

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Minisymposium "Catalysis under Confinement"

Project B06

Cooperative multiple activation catalysis

  • Project leader(s)
  • Team
Prof. Dr. Michael R. Buchmeiser
Prof. Dr. Michael R. Buchmeiser
University of Stuttgart
Prof. Dr. René Peters
Prof. Dr. René Peters
University of Stuttgart
Dr. Elizabeth Goldstein
Dr. Elizabeth Goldstein
University of Stuttgart
Alina Bauer
Alina Bauer
University of Stuttgart
Fridolin Hennhöfer
Fridolin Hennhöfer
University of Stuttgart
Koushani Kundu
Koushani Kundu
University of Stuttgart
Liam Rautenbach
Liam Rautenbach
University of Stuttgart
  • Summary
  • Publications

Cooperative asymmetric dual / multiple activation catalysis under confinement

– New project since July 2022 –

We wish to develop a deep understanding of cooperative asymmetric catalysis under confinement. Major questions are whether the entropic advantage observed with enzymes resulting from H-bonding networks can be transferred to bi-/trifunctional catalysts immobilized in mesoporous supports and whether this assembly can be used for a self-preorganization of the participating catalytic centers to allow for the targeted synergistic effects. A central strategy is to make use of the replacement of water/alcohol molecules in the active sites by the substrates, which results in an entropic overcompensation by substrate binding. Catalysts will be studied both as a whole and by splitting them into their individual parts