PRESENTS SEMINAR

Transition Metal C​omplexes in Applied Catalysis

Date: Monday, April 4th, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Building 4, Room 101

Speaker:

Dr. Wissam Nabil Iali

Centre for Hyperpolarization in Magnetic Resonance CHyM, The University of York United Kingdom

Abstract:

The chemical industry is an enabling industry. Chemicals are supplied to almost every other industry. The manufacture of ​

goods from oil, coal or gas to ​everyday consumer products comprises in more or less all cases at least one catalytic step. 

Catalysis in truly multidisciplinary with respect to various areas: inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, 

chemical engineering, extra. As industry becomes more oriented toward specialty chemicals, methods to catalyse 

functional group transformations, hydrocarbon activation, polymerisations, inductions of asymmetry and recently

 photo-activation chemistry will be increasingly in demand. The transition metals complexes have provided a series

 of important conceptual insights, surprising structures and useful catalysts both for industrial processes, for organic

 synthesis and for the energy conversion. Today, many catalysts are capable of very high levels of asymmetric induction

 in preferentially forming one enantiomer of a chiral product. This field is very interesting for the pharmaceutical 

industries. Recently, the transition metals complexes have been showed an important catalytic activity to convert the 

natural energy (water, light) to a chemical energy. These types of molecules were used in the human health domain as

 important anti-cancer drugs.

The seminar will focus primarily on 1) the synthesis of new transition cyclometalated complexes (palladacycles, 

iridacycles and ruthenacycles) with planar chirality by C-H activation, 2)  the development of new efficient catalysts

 which are able to catalyze the hydroamination of alkynes and hydrosilylation of imines in one-pot reaction at room 

temperature, 3) the water splitting catalysis, 4) the development of new "eco-aware" catalysts for the photocatalytic

 oxidation of organic substrates by dioxygen activation using Ru/Cu complexes as catalysts and 5) on  the development 

of new thematic which is SABRE: Signal Amplification By Reversible Exchange which has the role to increase the sensitivity

 of the MRI.

Biography: