Project Details
Projekt
GRK 1213: New Methods for Sustainability in Catalysis and Technique
Subject Area
Molecular Chemistry
Biological Chemistry and Food Chemistry
Biological Chemistry and Food Chemistry
Term
from 2005 to 2009
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 823996
Modern research in catalysis is done interdisciplinarily at the borderlines between the classical areas of chemistry, physics and engineering and thus benefits from permanent collaboration of experts in these different fields of work. The importance of catalysis for economics of all industrialised countries is given not only by the quantity and value of products brought forth by catalysed processes but by the possibility to make these industrial processes more efficient (regarding feedstock utilisation, needs of energy and material, unwanted byproducts or waste) solely by improved or novel catalyses. Research in catalysis may be in such a sense regarded as investment in sustainable development and a future worth living.Having this in mind, the Research Training Group intends to join doctoral students from several scientific disciplines in their research. It is a logical extension of the newly structured educational scheme for the studies in chemistry in Rostock which offers, as a facultative term, specialisation in catalysis. The lectures of this specialisation programme are intended to serve for additional qualification of those students who join the Research Training Group after having done their studies and graduation at another university (as a part of the educational programme).The Research Training Group is intended to further promote homogeneous catalysis from a pure empiric art to a theoretically understandable science . This will be achieved by basic research on catalytic active and related model systems, preferentially by physico-chemical procedures. Methodic developments and improvements will be necessary to perform experiments, e. g. NMR or mass spectrometric measurements, under reaction conditions (in situ). Automated synthetic methods like combinatorial synthesis or High-Troughput Screening adapted be used for preparation and testing of catalysts, this will be a substantial contribution from the engineering sciences.Going from theory to practical application will not be neglected, by broadening the scope of application of catalysed reactions for instance. One example is the synthesis of amines from unsaturated hydrocarbons and ammonia (enlarging the basis of chemical supply) or to choose ecologically less problematic reaction media. This features a special contribution to sustainable development.
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
Applicant Institution
Universität Rostock
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Uwe Rosenthal
