Asymmetric catalysis with supported chiral olefin-rhodium complexes in defined porous networks (B03+)

• Subject Area: Organic Molecular Chemistry - Synthesis and Characterisation
• Term: from 2018 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 358283783

The aim is to understand and control chirality transfer, catalytic activity and mechanism of chiral diene-metal complexes covalently tethered inside a mesoporous material by using the asymmetric Rh-catalyzed 1,4-addition of boronic acids to enones as a benchmark system. The confinement effects resulting from a) the steric confinement of the catalyst and substrate in a pore of certain size and geometry, b) the polarity gradient between the inner pore surface and the catalyst in the centre and c) solvent interactions with inner pore surface and the ligand sphere will be examined by various experimental and theoretical methods.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1333: Molecular Heterogeneous Catalysis in Confined Geometries
• Applicant Institution: Universität Stuttgart
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Sabine Laschat