Final Activity Report Summary - REVCAT (Evolutionary Catalysis)
Catalyst finding and optimisation strategies have been applied that go through loops of selection and adaption, in analogy to evolutionary processes. By doing so various new catalysts were uncovered, including cheap iron based catalysts for hydrogenation, organocatalysts for asymmetric C-C bond formation, rhodium catalysts for asymmetric hydrogenation and hydroformylation. In addition, in analogy to natural systems, catalyst systems have been developed in which two catalysts work in harmony to enforce selective transformations.