Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry

Project Information

DCC

Grant agreement ID: 501648

Project closed

Start date 1 January 2004

End date 31 December 2005

Funded under

• Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006

Total cost € 168 232,00

EU contribution € 168 232,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

Objective

The development of supramolecular catalysts that rival the efficiency and selectivity of enzymes is one of the holy grails in chemistry. We believe that the dynamic combinatorial approach has the potential to become a useful new tool for catalysts discovery and synthesis.

The project will focus on the synthesis of new catalysts for hydrolysis reactions and Lewis-acic catalysed Diels-Alder reactions. As in the catalytic antibody approach, the use of a transition state analogue (TSA) as a template will induce the formation of receptors for these species that should make good catalysts. An important advantage over the catalytic antibody approach is that we have control over the recognition functionalities that will be incorporated into the prospective catalysts. In a first time, we intend to synthesise new non-polar dithiol building blocks for receptors/catalysts as well as explore hydrogen-bond donating and accepting building blocks and hydrids. We will exploit fully the versatile characteristic of L-cysteine in providing thiol functionality, homochirality and a solubilising carboxylate group in the same molecule. We also propose to extend this approach by incorporating metal centres into the catalysts. Using a TSA, which bind (weakly) to the metal centre it should be possible to select and amplify the best catalyst from dynamic combinatorial libraries.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

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• natural sciences › chemical sciences › catalysis
• natural sciences › biological sciences › biochemistry › biomolecules › proteins › enzymes

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Programme(s)

• FP6-MOBILITY - Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006

Topic(s)

• MOBILITY-2.1 - Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships (EIF)

Call for proposal

FP6-2002-MOBILITY-5
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Funding Scheme

EIF - Marie Curie actions-Intra-European Fellowships

Coordinator

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: The Old Schools, Trinity Lane ; CAMBRIDGE ; United Kingdom
• Total cost: No data