Raja, Robert - University of Southampton

个人简介

Robert Raja joined the University of Southampton in June 2006 as Reader in Chemistry, following a research career at the University of Cambridge (2001-2006), Bayer Chemicals, Germany (1999-2001), the Royal Institution of Great Britain (1997-1999) as an 1851 Exhibition Fellow, and the National Chemical Laboratory, India (1994-1997). His multidisciplinary research group are involved in the holistic design of catalytic materials at the nanoscale, and understanding the behaviour of catalytic processes at the molecular level for multi-scale energy, environmental and sustainable chemical technologies. Through his collaborations as co-investigator on the EPSRC UK Catalysis Hub and with his numerous partnerships with Industry (Honeywell, SiGNa, UOP, Bayer), he has pioneered the rational design of multifunctional active sites, which has led to the development of single-site heterogeneous catalysts for the nylon industry (ε-caprolactam) and in the asymmetric synthesis of pharmaceutical and fine-chemical intermediates, that have led to the award of 27 patents in the last 5 years. He is the author of more than 140 research publications, in peer-reviewed journals, with an h-index of 41. His notable accolades include the Honeywell Inventors Award (2014), Santander Universities Entrepreneurial Award (2012), Erskine Fellowship (2008) and the Barrer Award (2005).

研究领域

Our approach to the design of environmentally benign and highly active single-site heterogeneous catalysts adopts the principles and practices of solid-state chemistry, augmented by lessons derived from enzymology, as well as computational chemistry. This entails the design and synthesis of novel inorganic porous solids, especially those with open structures where the active sites are atomically engineered and fully characterized, the microporosityand mesoporosityof which confer attractive and adaptable adsorptive and catalytic properties. In this way we have succeeded in designing a range of new catalysts to effect, interalia, shape-selective, regioselective, bifunctional and enantioselective catalytic conversions. In particular, large fractions of these catalysts are ideally suited for the era of clean technology in which single-step and/or solvent-free processes abound, and in which benign oxidants such as air or oxygen and inexpensive nanoporous materials are employed.

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Design and control of Lewis acid sites in Sn-substituted microporous architectures - Mohammed, Khaled M.H., Chutia, Arunabhiram, Callison, June, Wells, Peter, Gibson, Emma K., Beale, Andrew M., Catlow, C. Richard A. and Raja, Robert Published:2016Publication:Journal of Materials Chemistry AVolume:4, (15)Page Range:5706-5712doi:10.1039/C5TA10283A Design of highly selective platinum nanoparticle catalysts for the aerobic oxidation of KA-oil using continuous-flow chemistry - Gill, Arran, Hinde, Christopher S., Leary, Rowan K., Potter, Matthew, Jouve, Andrea, Wells, Peter, Midgley, Paul A., Thomas, John M. and Raja, Robert Published:2016Publication:ChemSusChemVolume:9, (5)Page Range:423-427doi:10.1002/cssc.201501264PMID:26833972 Expanding beyond the micropore: active-site engineering in hierarchical architectures for Beckmann rearrangement - Newland, Stephanie H., Sinkler, Wharton, Mezza, Thomas, Bare, Simon R., Carravetta, Marina, Haies, Ibraheem M., Levy, Alan, Keenan, Scott and Raja, Robert Published:2015Publication:ACS CatalysisVolume:5, (11)Page Range:6587-6593doi:10.1021/acscatal.5b01595 Spectroscopic and computational insights on catalytic synergy in bimetallic aluminophosphate catalysts - Potter, Matthew, Paterson, A. James, Mishra, Bhoopesh, Kelly, Shelly D., Bare, Simon R., Corà, Furio, Levy, Alan B. and Raja, Robert Published:2015Publication:Journal of the American Chemical SocietyVolume:137, (26)Page Range:8534-8540doi:10.1021/jacs.5b03734PMID:26076192