Copper Catalysis Applications

Projektinformationen

CatalApp

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 709590

DOI

10.3030/709590

Projekt abgeschlossen

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 5 April 2016

Startdatum 1 August 2016

Enddatum 31 Januar 2018

Finanziert unter

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Gesamtkosten

€ 147 500,00

EU-Beitrag

€ 147 500,00

Koordiniert durch

UNIVERSITAT DE GIRONA
Spain

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - CatalApp (Copper Catalysis Applications)

Berichtszeitraum: 2016-08-01 bis 2018-01-31

Zusammenfassung vom Kontext und den Gesamtzielen des Projekts

The Proof of Concept (PoC) project named Copper Catalysis Applications (CatalApp) was devoted to study the feasibility of bringing the copper-catalysed C-C and C-heteroatom cross coupling technology, initially developed in the SUSCATCu3 project (ERC-2011-StG-277801), into a pre-commercial stage. The projects has focused into two key aspects: on one hand, the scale-up of the catalysis up to the kilogram scale, thus validating their technological applicability; on the other hand, economical and legal aspects necessary to accomplish in the commercialization stage have been studied, including a market study to identify specific potential uses of these new synthetic tools, and also a review of potential commercialisation partners to enable exploitation of the new methodologies into the market.
This PoC project allowed to set the commercial availability of a portfolio of methodologies based on copper catalysis, designed for specific applications. These newly developed methodologies are expected to raise a broad interest within industries involved in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and organic polymers, whose syntheses involve the formation of C-C or C-heteroatom bonds.
With the conclusions obtained from this PoC project, the expertise on the Cu-based technologies developed will be exploited into the market in the form of consultancy.