研究领域

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Green organic chemistry

Over 90% of all commercially available organic chemicals are sourced from crude oil. This is unsustainable and a major challenge for chemists in the coming decades will be wean the chemicals industry off its addiction to crude oil and onto renewable, sustainable starting materials. In addition, whilst catalysis is often seen as a green technology, many current catalytic processes rely on metals such as rhodium, iridium and platinum which are themselves of limited and decreasing availability. Our interest focusses on a number of aspects of making organic chemistry sustainable. Our approach is based on obtaining a thorough understanding of chemical processes by a combination of spectroscopic and mechanistic studies to allow mechanism led optimizations to be carried out which improve both the chemical effectiveness and the sustainability of a process.