Recycling Environmentally Persistent Fluorocarbons with Metathesis and Shuttle Catalysis

Project Information

FluoroCycle

Grant agreement ID: 101001071

DOI

10.3030/101001071

EC signature date 20 January 2021

Start date 1 October 2021

End date 30 September 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 000 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

A heterometallic σ-silane adduct from cooperative reactivity of an iron–aluminium complex

Author(s): Benedek Stadler, Mark R. Crimmin
Published in: Chemical Communications, Issue 62, 2026, Page(s) 572-575, ISSN 1359-7345
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d5cc06456b

Dyotropic Rearrangement of an Iron–Aluminium Complex

Author(s): Benedek Stadler, Nikolaus Gorgas, Stuart J. Elliott, Mark R. Crimmin
Published in: Angewandte Chemie, Issue 136, 2024, ISSN 0044-8249
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202408257

C(sp ² )─H Bond Activation with a Heterometallic Nickel–Aluminium Complex

Author(s): Joseph A. Zurakowski, Benedek Stadler, Marcus W. Drover, Mark R. Crimmin
Published in: Angewandte Chemie, Issue 137, 2025, ISSN 0044-8249
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202512684

Synthetic methodologies for the chemical recycling of fluorocarbons

Author(s): Shannon E. S. Farley, Mark R. Crimmin
Published in: Nature Reviews Chemistry, Issue 10, 2026, Page(s) 277-287, ISSN 2397-3358
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41570-026-00813-y

Reactions of a Zn–Zn bond with main group carbene analogues as a prototypical case of reductive addition

Author(s): Wenbang Yang, Andrew J. P. White, Mark R. Crimmin
Published in: Nature Synthesis, Issue 4, 2025, Page(s) 995-1000, ISSN 2731-0582
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s44160-025-00790-y

Au(I) Catalyzed HF Transfer: Tandem Alkyne Hydrofluorination and Perfluoroarene Functionalization.

Author(s): Daniel Mulryan; Jack Rodwell; Nicholas A. Phillips; Mark R. Crimmin
Published in: ACS Catalysis, Issue 12, 2022, Page(s) 3411-3419, ISSN 2155-5435
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c05474

Chemical recycling of hydrofluorocarbons by transfer fluorination

Author(s): Niko A. Jenek, Sarah L. Brock, Jiahuang Mao, Amanda A. Fogh, Andreas Phanopoulos, Mark R. Crimmin
Published in: Nature Chemistry, 2026, ISSN 1755-4330
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-026-02096-8

A Continuous Flow Process for the Defluorosilylation of HFC-23 and HFO-1234yf

Author(s): Sarah L. Patrick, James A. Bull, Philip W. Miller, Mark R. Crimmin
Published in: Organic Letters, Issue 26, 2024, Page(s) 8605-8609, ISSN 1523-7060
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.4c03274

Defluoroalkylation of Trifluoromethane with Organolithium Reagents: Mechanism and Synthesis of Fluoroalkenes

Author(s): Hodan R. Warsame, Sarah L. Patrick, James A. Bull, Philip W. Miller, Mark R. Crimmin
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 65, 2026, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202516598

Vinylic C–H Activation of Styrenes by an Iron–Aluminum Complex

Author(s): Nikolaus Gorgas; Benedek Stadler; Andrew J. P. White; Mark R. Crimmin
Published in: J. Am. Chem. Soc., Issue 2, 2024, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c14281

Boron, Aluminum, and Gallium Fluorides as Catalysts for the Defluorofunctionalization of Electron-Deficient Arenes: The Role of NaBAr^F₄ Promoters

Author(s): Wenbang Yang, Andrew J. P. White, Mark R. Crimmin
Published in: Inorganic Chemistry, Issue 64, 2025, Page(s) 6092-6099, ISSN 0020-1669
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c05381

Catalytic HF Shuttling between Fluoroalkanes and Alkynes

Author(s): Shannon E. S. Farley, Daniel Mulryan, Feriel Rekhroukh, Andreas Phanopoulos, Mark Crimmin
Published in: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, ISSN 1521-3773
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202317550

Defluorination of HFCs by a magnesium reagent

Author(s): Daniel J. Sheldon; Joseph M. Parr; Mark R. Crimmin
Published in: Dalton Trans., Issue 1, 2024, ISSN 1477-9234
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4dt00636d

Double Deprotonation of CH3CN by an Iron-Aluminium Complex

Author(s): Benedek Stadler, Nikolaus Gorgas, Andrew White, Mark Crimmin
Published in: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, ISSN 1521-3773
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202219212

Room Temperature Defluorination of Poly(tetrafluoro)ethylene by a Magnesium Reagent

Author(s): Daniel Sheldon; Joseph Parr; Mark Crimmin
Published in: J. Am. Chem. Soc., Issue 145, 2023, Page(s) 10486-10490, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c02526

Other (2)

Selective Defluorination of 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane by Lithium Phosphide Reagents

Author(s): Hodan R Warsame, Colleen M Demetriou, Mark R Crimmin
Published in: chemRxiv (preprint), 2026
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv.15000889/v1

Recycling Fluoropolymers to Acyl Fluorides through Shuttle Catalysis

Author(s): Shannon E S Farley, Amanda A Fogh, Mark Richard Crimmin
Published in: chemRxiv (preprint), 2026
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv.15001339/v1