The UK Catalysis Hub
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bath
Department Name: Chemistry
Abstract
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Publications
Stößer T
(2018)
'Switch' catalysis: from monomer mixtures to sequence-controlled block copolymers.
in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
Lam FYT
(2022)
A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Arene-Supported Actinide and Ytterbium Tetraphenolate Complexes.
in Inorganic chemistry
Kiss E
(2016)
A Counterion-Directed Approach to the Diels-Alder Paradigm: Cascade Synthesis of Tricyclic Fused Cyclopropanes.
in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Chutia A
(2020)
A DFT and KMC based study on the mechanism of the water gas shift reaction on the Pd(100) surface.
in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
Marcé P
(2016)
A mild hydration of nitriles catalysed by copper(ii) acetate.
in Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
Smith PJ
(2017)
A new class of Cu/ZnO catalysts derived from zincian georgeite precursors prepared by co-precipitation.
in Chemical science
Pott M
(2018)
A Noncanonical Proximal Heme Ligand Affords an Efficient Peroxidase in a Globin Fold.
in Journal of the American Chemical Society
Newland R
(2017)
A ruthenium( ii ) bis(phosphinophosphinine) complex as a precatalyst for transfer-hydrogenation and hydrogen-borrowing reactions
in Dalton Transactions
Newland R
(2018)
Accessing Alkyl- and Alkenylcyclopentanes from Cr-Catalyzed Ethylene Oligomerization Using 2-Phosphinophosphinine Ligands
in Organometallics
Sherborne GJ
(2015)
Activation and deactivation of a robust immobilized Cp*Ir-transfer hydrogenation catalyst: a multielement in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy study.
in Journal of the American Chemical Society
Browne M
(2018)
Adams Method Prepared Metal Oxide Catalysts for Solar-Driven Water Splitting
in ChemPhotoChem
Kang L
(2020)
Adsorption and activation of molecular oxygen over atomic copper(I/II) site on ceria.
in Nature communications
Chen C
(2018)
Adsorption and Electrochemical Oxidation of Small Sulfur-Containing Anions on Pt Electrodes in Organic Media
in ChemElectroChem
Chutia A
(2016)
Adsorption of formate species on Cu(h,k,l) low index surfaces
in Surface Science
O'Malley AJ
(2016)
Ammonia mobility in chabazite: insight into the diffusion component of the NH3-SCR process.
in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
Suwardiyanto S
(2017)
An assessment of hydrocarbon species in the methanol-to-hydrocarbon reaction over a ZSM-5 catalyst
in Faraday Discussions
Jones DR
(2016)
An investigation of the effect of carbon support on ruthenium/carbon catalysts for lactic acid and butanone hydrogenation.
in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
Gomm A
(2018)
Application of "Smart" Amine Donors for Rapid Screening and Scale-Up of Transaminase-Mediated Biotransformations
in European Journal of Organic Chemistry
Arnold PL
(2019)
Applications of boroxide ligands in supporting small molecule activation by U(iii) and U(iv) complexes.
in Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)
Parker B
(2016)
Applications of Neutron Scattering in Catalysis Where atoms are and how they move
in Johnson Matthey Technology Review
Protchenko A
(2020)
Approaching a "Naked" Boryl Anion: Amide Metathesis as a Route to Calcium, Strontium, and Potassium Boryl Complexes
in Angewandte Chemie
Doble M
(2018)
Artificial Metalloenzymes as Catalysts for Oxidative Lignin Degradation
in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
Taday F
(2020)
Asymmetric Construction of Alkaloids by Employing a Key ?-Transaminase Cascade.
in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Cao Y
(2016)
Base-free oxidation of glucose to gluconic acid using supported gold catalysts
in Catalysis Science & Technology
Chen T
(2020)
Bio-based and Degradable Block Polyester Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives
in Angewandte Chemie
Chen TTD
(2020)
Bio-based and Degradable Block Polyester Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives.
in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Messiha HL
(2018)
Biocatalytic Routes to Lactone Monomers for Polymer Production.
in Biochemistry
Morteo-Flores F
(2020)
Biomass hydrodeoxygenation catalysts innovation from atomistic activity predictors.
in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
Booth AC
(2022)
Boronic ester functionalised 1,8-diboryl-naphthalene scaffolds: fluoride versus oxide chelation.
in Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)
Minova I
(2022)
Carbene-like reactivity of methoxy groups in a single crystal SAPO-34 MTO catalyst
in Catalysis Science & Technology
Arnold P
(2017)
Carbon oxygenate transformations by actinide compounds and catalysts
in Nature Reviews Chemistry
Locke E
(2018)
Catalysis of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction by 4-10 nm Cobalt Nanoparticles.
in Topics in catalysis
Doble MV
(2014)
Catalyst design in oxidation chemistry; from KMnO4 to artificial metalloenzymes.
in Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry
Trott G
(2016)
Catalysts for CO2/epoxide ring-opening copolymerization.
in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
Imam H
(2019)
Catalytic and biophysical investigation of rhodium hydroformylase
in Catalysis Science & Technology
Mansell SM
(2017)
Catalytic applications of small bite-angle diphosphorus ligands with single-atom linkers.
in Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)
Mo Z
(2016)
Catalytic B-N Dehydrogenation Using Frustrated Lewis Pairs: Evidence for a Chain-Growth Coupling Mechanism.
in Journal of the American Chemical Society
Wingad R
(2015)
Catalytic Conversion of Ethanol to n -Butanol Using Ruthenium P-N Ligand Complexes
in ACS Catalysis
Perret N
(2016)
Catalytic Response and Stability of Nickel/Alumina for the Hydrogenation of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural in Water.
in ChemSusChem
Romain C
(2016)
Chemoselective Polymerizations from Mixtures of Epoxide, Lactone, Anhydride, and Carbon Dioxide.
in Journal of the American Chemical Society
Czauderna C
(2015)
Chiral Wide-Bite-Angle Diphosphine Ligands: Synthesis, Coordination Chemistry, and Application in Pd-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation
in Organometallics
Dann E
(2017)
Combined In Situ XAFS/DRIFTS Studies of the Evolution of Nanoparticle Structures from Molecular Precursors
in Chemistry of Materials
Dann E
(2019)
Combined spatially resolved operando spectroscopy: New insights into kinetic oscillations of CO oxidation on Pd/?-Al2O3
in Journal of Catalysis
O'Malley AJ
(2018)
Comparing ammonia diffusion in NH3-SCR zeolite catalysts: a quasielastic neutron scattering and molecular dynamics simulation study.
in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
Celorrio V
(2016)
Composition-Dependent Reactivity of Ba 0.5 Sr 0.5 Co x Fe 1- x O 3-d toward the Oxygen Reduction Reaction
in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Qiu C
(2023)
Compositional Evolution of Individual CoNPs on Co/TiO2 during CO and Syngas Treatment Resolved through Soft XAS/X-PEEM.
in ACS catalysis
Falkowska M
(2018)
Confinement Effects on the Benzene Orientational Structure
in Angewandte Chemie
Falkowska M
(2018)
Confinement Effects on the Benzene Orientational Structure.
in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Description | Here we summarise first the overall structure and achievements of the entire Hub project followed by highlighting some of the key contributions of the Chemical Transformations, Biocatalysis and Environmental Catalysis themes of phase of the UK Catalysis Hub. The UK Catalysis Hub was founded with EPSRC funding in 2013 with three main aims: • To establish a world-leading, comprehensive and coordinated programme of catalytic science in the UK. • To develop new knowledge and promote innovation in and translation of catalytic science and technology. • To enable the UK to regain and retain a world leading position in catalysis. The Hub has fully achieved these objectives: it has coordinated and developed the UK catalysis community; it has established strong and enduring interactions with UK industry; and it is now widely known and recognised internationally. Key to its success has been its inclusivity, its effective management structure (described in more detail in the Management Plan), and its physical hub, based in the Research Complex (RCaH) on the Harwell campus. Its network over 40 university groups around the UK now includes the majority of academic catalytic scientists, whilst its wide ranging scientific programme is increasingly integrating different fields within catalytic science. Its physical centre on the Harwell campus has provided a focus for the community and has facilitated the application to catalytic science of the world-class neutron, synchrotron and laser facilities on the campus. Through both its scientific programme and its vibrant programme of activities (conferences, specialised workshops and outreach activities), the Hub has energised a broad community of scientists, facilitating collaboration through multidisciplinary and multi-institution projects. One example of how the Hub science has delivered in the first phase has been in the development of new catalysts for the replacement of petrochemically derived plastics with renewable materials based on bio-based feedstocks and CO2 (Williams et al., Nature, (2016), 540, 354). This key challenge for sustainable materials requires new robust and selective catalysts to be developed. Within the Catalysis Hub, a multi-institutional team, together with scientists from Harwell, have made major progress, in particular though a combination of synthetic, spectroscopic (XAS) and computational (DFT) techniques. One project has enabled the development of new selective catalytic processes for ring-opening polymerisation of commercially important renewable monomers and a detailed study of the properties and performances of various catalysts enabling carbon dioxide/epoxide copolymerisation. Catalysts have been discovered that are able to operate switchable polymerisation to generate block sequence selectivity: an important goal in realising sustainable functional materials of the future. This latter phenomenon is very unusual and the collaboration has enabled a detailed study of the both the experimental factors controlling it (kinetics/spectroscopy) and a computational approach to probing the process by DFT calculations, revealing both a kinetic and thermodynamic basis for the observed selectivity, |
Exploitation Route | The research of the hub has been widely disseminated and is being continued in an number of research groups across the UK |
Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Chemicals,Education,Energy,Environment,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology |
URL | http://www.uckcatalysishub.co.uk |
Description | Selective Polymerisation The research investigated using the Hub funding remains at an early stage as would be expected with EPSRC funded fundamental research. Nonetheless, the target area - making useful products from carbon dioxide, is one in which there is potential for both environmental and commercial impact. It is relevant to note that there is a UK based company, Econic technologies, formed on the basis of earlier catalytic science from C. K. Williams which has commercialized catalysts for carbon dioxide/epoxide copolymerization (http://www.econic-technologies.com/). The product polycarbonate polyols are attracting increasing industrial attention as components in polyurethanes, a large commodity sector of the polymer market. Thus, the discoveries of the EPSRC Catalysis Hub funding are relevant to an emerging sector in both the polymer and polymerization catalysis sectors. There is also a demonstrated environmental benefit to using carbon dioxide to make polymers - in effect there is a 'triple win' as for every tonne of carbon dioxide used to make polymers, there is a three-tonne saving in CO2 emissions. This arises because the carbon dioxide replaces epoxide in the conventional process and thus by avoiding petrochemical useage there are emissions savings also. The early-stage research in catalysis funded by the UK Catalysis Hub has allowed a broader range of polymers to be prepared from CO2. This is important because in future equivalent cost and environmental benefits could be envisaged in sectors beyond polyurethanes. For example, some of the polymers prepared using the switchable catalysis show good elastomeric behaviour so may be suitable as replacements for commodity materials like SBS (styrene-butadiene-styrene). Another impact area that has been developed thanks to the Catalysis Hub funding has been the outreach and demonstration of the concept to the general public. The Imperial College London/Oxford team have participated in two large-scale outreach activities - the imperial College London Festival which attracted >10,000 members of the public in May 2015 and 2016. The Williams team presented the science behind carbon dioxide to polymers, including demonstrating a Co2-emittting 'factory' (a shoe box loaded with dry-ice and water) which was very popular, especially with families. It allowed the public to imagine the way that carbon dioxide emissions may one day be able to be transformed into useful products. The festival was held over two days and the group also participated in a schools outreach event each year. Furthermore, Charlotte Williams has presented the carbon dioxide catalysis on the Radio 4 programme, 'Costing the earth' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081lkm1) which was broadcast in November 2016. |
First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
Sector | Chemicals,Education,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic |
Title | Raw data from publication entitled: Resolving the effect of oxygen vacancies on Co nanostructures using soft XAS/X-PEEM |
Description | Raw data from the recent publication: Resolving the effect of oxygen vacancies on Co nanostructures using soft XAS/X-PEEM |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Raw_data_from_publication_entitled_Resolving_the_effect_of_ox... |
Description | Collaboration with HoneyWell for onic Liquid-Metal Oxide Composite Catalysts for Beckmann Rearrangement |
Organisation | Honeywell UK |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Key findings 1. A method for developing metal oxide-ionic liquid hybrid catalysts in which the ionic liquid is tethered to suitable supports. 2. A range of analytical and spectroscopic techniques have been employed to evaluate the physico-chemical properties of parent oxides and ionic liquid tethered oxides. 3. Liquid phase Beckmann experiments have been performed to investigate the structure-activity correlation of ionic liquid-metal oxide composites. 4. Promising combinations of ionic liquid and support oxides have been identified by screening experiments with respect to the porosity, type of framework, the presence of silanol groups in parent oxides, bulkiness and hydrophobic/hydrophilic properties of ions. |
Collaborator Contribution | Intellectual involvement in the project |
Impact | Key findings 1. A method for developing metal oxide-ionic liquid hybrid catalysts in which the ionic liquid is tethered to suitable supports. 2. A range of analytical and spectroscopic techniques have been employed to evaluate the physico-chemical properties of parent oxides and ionic liquid tethered oxides. 3. Liquid phase Beckmann experiments have been performed to investigate the structure-activity correlation of ionic liquid-metal oxide composites. 4. Promising combinations of ionic liquid and support oxides have been identified by screening experiments with respect to the porosity, type of framework, the presence of silanol groups in parent oxides, bulkiness and |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Syngenta Title: Hydrogenation of Organic compounds: Electrochemical Intervention to Optimized catalysts (imperial) |
Organisation | Syngenta International AG |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Sulfur compounds with sulfur in different oxidation state, -2, +3 and +4, poison Pt-catalysts, with the extent of poisoning being reflected in the hydrogen adsorption reaction. The degree of poisoning varies with different sulfur oxidation state in both aqueous and non-aqueous medium. Ultimately, electrochemical methods could be employed in-situ to probe the status of catalysts. 2. Poisoned Pt catalysts can be renewed by consecutive potential cycling. The potential limit required for acetic acid medium is 300 mV higher than for aqueous medium. 3. X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) analysis has demonstrated the conversion of sulfur to sulfate during the recovery process. 4. Using well-define Pt single crystal electrodes, the surface structure impacts on the regeneration has been established |
Collaborator Contribution | This project had strong support from Syngenta. The company has provided platinum nanoparticle samples used for this project and Drs Lai and Brennan (Syngenta) have attended progress meetings. There has been two-way exchange of researchers between the University of Warwick and Syngenta to discuss results and generate ideas. |
Impact | This project has provided major new insights as to how different sulfur-containing species poison platinum electrocatalysts, how this can be detected easily by electrochemistry, and how electrochemistry can be further used to regenerate the catalysts. Thus, avenues for impact include: (a) Developing an electrochemical sensor to be deployed in-situ during hydrogenation reactions (to monitor reaction conditions), or even (easier) to quickly assess the quality of solvents coming into a plant. (b) Developing electrochemical methods to regenerate catalysts or elucidate oxidation potentials required and suitable molecular oxidants. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | TAlks at UKCC 2016,17,18,19 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talks at the annual UK Catalysis conference including running a theme on polymers and circular economy |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | UK Catalyiss HUb confnerences |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | bi-annual Conference for the UK catalyis hub Conferences 120 people per confnenrence for hub and wider community, |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |